People Should Not Be Afraid of Their Governments, Governments Should Be Afraid of Their People

[silver_tiamat]

Aaaah...the title of this entry is my 2nd favorite line from one of my top...oh, at least 8 movies of all time: V For Vendetta. I just really like this movie. It might be in the top 5, but I have sneaky suspicion that I have something like 10 movies that I put in my "top 5" at any given moment...XD Still, I really love the movie. But, I've always

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[wickedhearts]

I want to read/watch 1984...I've been wanting to do for years. I need to go to borders and pick it up. Have you read We by Yevgeny Zamyatin? It's about a communist world...it's interesting and also a bit hard to follow sometimes because people don't have names, they have numbers as names. I sometimes have a hard time remember who is who in book...so a number didn't help.

[silver_tiamat]

Read 1984, don't watch it. The movie adaptation just doesn't capture what the book does, both in effect and ideology...

And I haven't read We, but I HAVE read Anthem by Ayn Rand. That's a book where the word "I" has actually been eliminated from the language, and people have numbers instead of names as well. It's very interesting, and as always, I enjoy Rand's writing. =D