What are some good movies about orwellian-world (ultra-authoritarian governement, constant stream of propaganda, thought control, terrorist styled freedom fighters)?
I haven't watch the movie adaptation of 1984, though i might try one day, is it good?
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From what I understand Brazil's pretty dope, need to see it myself.
I loved A Scanner Darkly.
Real Life.
Go outside.
Equilibrium has plenty of what you mentioned. But frankly if you already read 1984, the movie feels a bit too ham-fisted and boring (except for the action scenes).
The Matrix movies might count as a sci-fi/futuristic version of it as well.
The movie is pretty dull but the fight scenes make the movie well worth it.
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The fight scenes are fucking awful though, it's just Bale spinning in circles slowly while everyone stands around waiting to get shot.
Land of the Blind also, but maybe it's not the kind of movie you're looking for.
V for Vendetta
Demolition Man
Snowden
Brazil
>emotion is illegal
>movie was dull
No shit
But the media is violently against him
Whatever this ain't Sup Forums
Minority Report is pretty Orwellian. I never read Orwell though. I heard he was actually a socialist though. He admired the socialism of Catalonia in his book Homage to Catalonia.
whats that george lucas film with the crazy name
it was pretty sick, kind of like 1984 but more naunced in some ways and less in others
also had a funny black hologram
>complete authoritarianism
>freedom fighters
you mean communism?
try nationalistic fascism
THX-1138.
They Live is pretty much what you described too OP.
Brazil
Robocop
Running Man
Total Recall
To be fair, surveillance, double-think, authoritarianism, etc is real enough and practiced by even the most 'progressive' countries.
North Korea & Saudi Arabia is the closest to that, and i think some South East Asian countries like Indonesia used to do that shit. Western countries including USA are relatively not plunged to that level despite what the conspiracy subscriber keep telling you.
Though it might soon enough
>Read file name
;_;
THX1138. Not even meming it is Lucas' best movie.
At the end of the movie is it implied that the government was trying to stop him leaving to try and save his life? because the surface was a wasteland
thats what I got out of it
Open your eyes sheep..
the way that it was shot and he emerged from the pipe out into the light seemed like he was trying to show a rebirth.
But there was vapor waves in the shot so yeah, I think it was supposed to be an open ending.
Either way
Dying a free man > Living as a slave
Gattaca
i fucking love Brazil; be sure that you pick it up with the right version of the ending though. there are two version, one for americans and the real one
The best scenes in Equilibrium aren't the fight scenes, but the one where they portray supressed emotions surfacing
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is the real ending the lobotomy ending?
Brazil is shit.
yes
Contributing a classic. The effects haven't aged well but acting and allegory wise it's damn fine. The novel this is based on is also really good.
what are you stupid? freedom fighter as the opposition to the government
Children of Men, it's also good that both sides are shown as evil and nonsensical, the protagonists could be more easily qualified as fighting for what humanity really needs at the time instead of a political ideal that'd be childish in a dying world.
Is 1984 actually a good adaptation? Not got time to read the book yet
He's more pro-freedom than Hillary is, so...yeah.
Jesus Christ dystopia is the most fedora genre there is. I watched two episodes of black mirror last month with my fedora tipping brother, one was the episode where they're on bikes and I cringed the whole time. In every single one of these "ultra authoritarian regimes" IRL most of the population was unhappy and rebelling/planning to rebel. Yet those euphoric fuckers keep going with their schtick.
>"men are sheep, it's in their nature to turn to a strong government"
>"only the truly euphoric are willing to forge their own path and break free of the shackles imposed upon our minds"
>"me?heh. not so much."
>unsheathes katana
>tips fedora
>tilt head back, reveal eyes under tipped fedora
>"see I've always been more of a free thinker!"
>sheevspins
>slays you
>"heh. nothing personal kiddo."
>turn into a black mist, fade away
I can't see Fahrenheit 451 at anything but comical, it felt like a bitter middle age man who didn't like TV wrote that people would end up becoming so stupid they'd make books illegal, it's basically like a wacky version of Equilibrium, which is already a silly film.
Plus they really loved that shot of the burning brigade riding the fireman truck.
This is one of the most autistic posts i've eve read, I hope it's pasta
wtf was that greentext
Orwell was critical of totalitarian governments. He despised socialst reality just as much as nazis. As many british intellectuals his ideas were a mixture of libertarian ideology and social solidarity.
>surveillance
there are cameras everywhere
Facebook and google have more extensive information on you than the CIA could dream
The NSA is capturing the entire internet in realtime and uses AI to manage and comb it.
>double-think
speaking anything outside of liberal marxist indoctrination will get you fired from jobs and kicked out of schools...this is exactly what causes double think.
Entire movements have been spawned and populated by useful idiots conditioned with double speak of "white privilege"
>authoritarianism
The USA is becoming more like China than China is becoming like the US.
Corporations are consolidating and destroying diversity and competition and becoming authoritarian in their control of the governments of the world. Left or right wing it leads to the same place: govt controls business or business controls govt.
You dont need to "suscribe to conspiracy" to see what is happening you just have to be intellectually honest with yourself.
Orwell was heavily critical of both communism and fascism. He was a socialist who fought on the loyalist side against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War. Got shot in the neck and survived somehow. Kinda badass.
His two most famous works are about the dangers of facsist totalitarianism and communist totalitarianism, in turn. He actually fought in three Spanish civil war.
Half Life 2 plays the Orwellian theme pretty straight.
There's supposed to be a half life film coming out in a few years.
You really should just watch 1984. Based Hurt was brilliant as the main character in it
The Running Man.
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Fuuuck
>pretending to uphold a strict meme arrow etiquette
you new bro?
Also "Daft punk" have a robot movie that's similar looking to the robots from THX-421 (LUCAS).
In Time is pretty decent dystopian core
>Alternative """"""""""facts"""""""""""'
Look at her disgusting wrinkly face. This is the future you chose, America. Time to own up to it.
THC-420 by Lucas
at least her stand up is good
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Brazil is GOAT and one of my all-time favrits
We are not living in Orwell's 1984, we are living in Huxley's Brave New World. Why does no one realize this?
most people are massive mind controlled plebs
people had fun in brave new world and I'm not having any fun at all
This.
Thanks user. I'm a lecturer and I've been encouraging my students to go out and read this (english isn't my subject) to be aware of the situation we're in
Russia live in Orwell's 1984 tho
Britain's moving closer to 1984 too.
The comic is pretty good, but the film managed to completely miss the point. The ending was particularly bad in that respect.
Also, 1984-pattern dystopia is the worst genre there is.
We're living in a society that has a combination of features from both.
Hunger Games
Equilibrium was horrible. The fight scenes ruin it for me.
>dude society is so evil man, pass the weed bro
Simple, just watch CNN
A few years ago there were rumors that Ridley Scott would make a huge adaptation of the book with DiCaprio in a central role, was it scrapped? I remember it being close to confirmed
Literally every major aspect of 1984 is true, it's a combination of both.
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