http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vi6TTNKdgSk<\/a>\n<\/p>What happens in a world where everyone is equal?\u00a0 When personal achievement is irrelevant, what becomes of the exceptional?\u00a0 If freedom becomes less important than fairness, who benefits?<\/p>\n
Kurt Vonnegut asked these questions in his dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron<\/i>.\u00a0 In 2009, this short story was resurrected and these questions asked again in the movie 2081<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0 Displaying all the rebellion of the original tale, 2081<\/i> manages to be disturbing, haunting, and horribly brilliant.\u00a0 The beautiful are masked.\u00a0 The strong are crippled.\u00a0 The intellectual are tortured for their thoughts.\u00a0 Equality belongs to mankind at last.\u00a0 The playing field is leveled, not by bringing everyone to a greater level of brilliance, but by lowering all mankind to the level of the ordinary.<\/p>\n
If you have half an hour, watch 2081<\/i>.\u00a0 Its haunting message will linger in your mind and color the way you hear the message of political correctness.\u00a0 This little film showcases the very best possibility of American cinema come to fruition.\u00a0 Its very being is the stark contrast to the world it warns is lurking a government decree away.<\/p>\n
*I was sent a copy of 2081 and asked to review it.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t recommend it if I didn\u2019t like it.\u00a0 I loved it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happens in a world where everyone is equal?\u00a0 When personal achievement is irrelevant, what becomes of the exceptional?\u00a0 If freedom becomes less important than fairness, who benefits? Kurt Vonnegut asked these questions in his dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron.\u00a0 In 2009, this short story was resurrected and these questions asked again in the movie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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