Tag Archives: utopia

Fascism is Funny Too

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

Sleeper (1973) – Woody Allen Health food store proprietor Miles Monroe is cryogenically frozen and wakes up 200 years in the future.  The post-apocalyptic world is ruled by a dictator who rules the brainwashed masses through television.  Our unlikely hero falls in … Continue reading →

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Alphaville: Je vous aime vs. sola Ratio

Posted on November 20, 2010 by

Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965) dir. Jean-Luc Godard With the coming of the Enlightenment, we see a sort of secularization of the Protestant principle: sola Scriptura becomes sola Ratio. - Julián Carrón One of the central battles between … Continue reading →

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The Post-Utopian Trial

Posted on October 17, 2010 by

The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles The first films I looked at were anti-utopias.  Each is a description of a would-be utopia that, due to internal flaws, doesn’t work.  Animal Farm critiques Stalinism, The Great Dictator critiques Nazism, and Metropolis … Continue reading →

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Animal Farm (1954, CIA)

Posted on September 27, 2010 by

Animal Farm (1954) dir. John Halas, Joy Batchelor “And after all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm — in fact, there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm … Continue reading →

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