Anti System Sunday

On a Monday due to technical difficulties... but it's a public holiday so it still counts.

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People & Blogs

Tags:

• George
• Orwell
• 1984
• The
• Last
• Children
• Equilibrium
• Rage
• Against
• Machine

[AnonymousCoward23]

Matrix the daddy?

Matrix, while enjoyable (the first movie, at least), is basically a rip-off of several far older science fiction novels, for example Simulacron-3 (adapted to film as "Welt am Draht"/"World on Wires" in 1973 and "The 13th Floor" in 1999) and Time Out of Joint.

And you didn't like the story in 1984? Could you clarify that? I for one think the story is absolutely brilliant (and as important as ever these days). The language thing is secondary, IMHO.

[BoundlessEyes]

I felt that the plot could have gone so much further into the livesof other people.. it's simple of focus on one man, whilst being brilliant to give a sense of the isolation in which they are living, does not help me to picture all of the tiny radical struggles going on in other people's minds... characterisation felt to me to be shallow and I had no sense of why he would have fallen in love with the woman, or what people working in the ministry are like internally.. but it's been a while. =)

[longhairred]

Another dystopian book: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.

[BoundlessEyes]

I've been dying to read Oryx and Crake for the longest time.. it's going to happen, soon, and I'm going to tell you what I think about it.

[MySearch4freedom]

This may be a bit over due but the best song i've ever come across apart from killing in the name to blow the propaganda cobwebs from my ears is Fuck The System by The Exploited. Don't like the band but the song has a tenancy to make me what to storm parliament in my amour plated underpants and scream the place down. Hope you have a good Saturday. :O)

[Nuron666]

I dont understand people who have a thing for antisystem.

What exactly do they want?. Do they want everyone to kill each other? Do they want the world to end?

[ButherLi55ett]

There's plenty of good trying to change the world type films rather than destroying it, though the reactionaries do try so hard. Like La Battala de Chile (you'll have to torrent it and down load a subs file) potentially the best documentary ever made. There's a very long film about the Paris Commune which someone has uploaded all 26 parts! And Chris Marker is worth a look, try Le fond de l'air est rouge.

[ButherLi55ett]

I much preferred Orwell's Homage to Catalonia about the Spanish Revolution and Civil War. Someone gave a shout to the film Land and Freedom, a similar and equally good film is Libertarias which comes at the subject from a slightly different perspective. More the burning of churches and killing priests kinda deal. And from a female perspective, generally speaking. I think they're both on Google video.

[stalfithrildi]

Political music worth checking out; Refused, Leftover Crack, Capdown

[peace97914101]

Thank you again.

[timeofwonder2009]

Music wise: Anything Einstürzende Neubauten.

[timeofwonder2009]

There is always "The trial" and "Metamorphosis" by Kafka. Drug-induced collective mind: "The Santaroga Barrier" by Herbert. Hive society (same author): "Hellstrom's Hive". Dick's "The Man in the High Castle". Strugatzki's "Picnic at the Way Side".

Movies: The obvious "Blade Runner". "A boy and his dog."

[Ilikenuman]

have you seen "When the wind blows" by Raymond Briggs? Its a film about a nuclear holucaust occuring in britain and the horrific after effects.

[TipoftheSlung]

I have just realised after watching this ages ago, you HAVE to read Ice by Anna Kavan, i almost wasnt to post you my copy.