the French Revolution. Has no one mentioned that or felt that? I especially saw the parallels with how Donald Sutherland's character was killed in the bath much like Marat, the French leader of the Revolution...
here is a link to the picture of the Death of Marat.
http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/144bg.jpg
That was probably one of the elements thrown into this film. Essentially the film has parallels to everything.
shareI liked how they replaced the quill and the paper with the more modern laptop :)
shareYes, and the fact that the upper classes, read aristocrats, send their kids to private schools where they were educated in French. When they showed the kids, they all wore the powdered wigs of the 18th century. The first half of the film was a sort of homage to the ancien regime, when the ruler felt he didn't have to listen to the people. After all, people were "voting" for their president for life.
And remember they killed some of the dissidents by guillotine.
Another item was the renaming of the months, the Jacobins renamed their months "scientifically," such as Thermidor, which is mentioned in the film. Historically, Robespierre was killed in the month of Thermidor, and in the film Thorne is killed in it.
And I pointed out the death of Marat thing to my friends and they didn't get it either ... philistines!
many many parallels: wearing glass --> concentration camps.reminds me Cambodia.
call a doctor...oh no all of then sent to camps....Stalin sendins the best doctors to camps...
I was born in cuba...boy was it the same...the slight different is Thorne is still in power...old, sick but still in power...and the new society and the new men are worse that the pre-castro...go figure...
good movie.
The parallel is intentional is you watch the making off the director brings it up as an example of how they used several dictators as rolemodels and several revolutions as well
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