![]() ![]() I thought the direction, cinematography, set+costume design, music and most importantly acting were all great. ![]() However, unlike Brave New World, where a drug is used to suppress the urge to nonconformity generally, in Kallocain a drug is used to detect individual acts and thoughts of rebellion. ![]() Both Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and Boye's Kallocain are drug dystopias, or societies in which pharmacology is used to suppress opposition to authority. One of its central ideas coincides with contemporary rumors of truth drugs that ensured the subordination of every citizen to the state. An important aspect of the novel is the relationships and connections between the various characters, such as the marriage of the main character and his wife Linda Kall, and the feelings of jealousy and suspicion that may arise in a society with heavy surveillance and legal uncertainty. Seen through the eyes of idealistic scientist Leo Kall, Kallocain is a depiction of a totalitarian world state. The drug based dystopia in Equilibrium is probably closer to the less well known swedish book Kallocain from 1940. They accept that THEY were wrong, or worse yet that REALITY was wrong. They can't even understand what it means to be lied to. Which is people literally being unable to even process the reality in front of them. Plus you have the whole "we were always at war with east asia" stuff. But the really scary thing is that by the end of the book he accepts that he invented it. Sure it sucks that Winston has zero proof that the Party framed the three original politicians. Like, the censorship is just a supporting part to the rest of the story. I don't know if I'm the one getting 1984 wrong, but isn't 1984 scary because people were able to think whatever they want? The torture scene where Winston is convinced 2 + 2 = 5 is the point isn't it? You have him in a jail cell with people who are happy to be tortured because their children said they were saying "down with big brother", and then you watch Winston go through the process of being convinced he's insane when we know he's the one who understand the reality. ![]()
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