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Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies (view source)
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|Much like the conservative text ''1984'', it teaches that big government is wrong for the world.
|As in ''[[1984]]'', over-arching government is unambiguously shown here to be both an evil and a danger to all humanity, exactly as [[Weber]] foresaw. Made half a decade before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this first film in ex-Python [[Terry Gilliam]]'s "dystopia triptych" - later: Twelve Monkeys (1995), The Zero Theorum (2013) - splendidly dresses its timely, [[Orwell]]ian premise in a [[Kafka]]-esque bureaucratic nightmare of spirit-crushingly dismal yet relentlessly authoritarian mediocrity; not since [[King Lear]] have the 'grey men' of history been so acutely exposed. The later films are difficult to assess by today's standards of conservatism, although Twelve Monkeys is admittedly an outstanding cinematic achievement even if [[Blade Runner]] screen-writer David People's co-written sceenplay is politically harder to place; Zero Theorum's hero, Qohen Leth, is named after Qoheleth/Koheleth, anonymous author of the book of [[Ecclesiastes]], but the only quality Leth seems to share with his wise, jaded, cynically pragmatic namesake is other-worldliness.
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