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Re: Orwellian Incarnations

To: over-the-rhine at actwin_com
Subject: Re: Orwellian Incarnations
From: Cygnet <sswans83 at calvin_edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 09:56:24 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <5014-398F67A0-2551 at storefull-628_iap.bryant.webtv.net>


> Also check out any film about The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
> or the People's Republic of China, to see George Orwell's 1984 (he
> simply reversed the digits of the current year, 1948). Check out Nora
> Lam's father's medical treatment in the film China Cry, or the decades
> of paranoia in the film, To Live. 
> 
> Orwell's anti-Stalinism, as evidenced in 1984, and the thinly veiled
> Animal Farm, came from seeing his small moderate socialist party
> brutally crushed by Soviet-backed Communists, within the anti-Franco
> forces in the Spanish Civil War. 

Speaking of anti-soviet films.  Burnt By the Sun is a tremendous film.  I
would reccomend it strongly.

It echoes a lot of the writings of Dostoevsky.  Very cool.

Steve

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