Sunday 17 May 2009

Books & Films about oppressive regimes

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (1932)


"Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't."
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

"I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."
Aldous Huxley


George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)


Equilibrium - Kurt Wimmer (2002)



The Pianist - Roman Polanski (2002)



The Lives of Others - Florian Henckel von Donnersmark (2006)

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