Why do dystopian - future movies always turn their protagonists into sexless infants ? Often , our hero is reduced to the mental status of a confused bambino , and may actually stop up hairless and naked , like Neo in The Matrix , or everyone in THX 1138 . We all secretly desire to be children again , and dystopian movies indulge this fantasy . Do n’t trust us ? There ’s a whole passel of adult - baby darkness futures after the jump .
THX-1138 . entirely hairless dandy ? crack . drug keep him asexual and out of it ? Check . Total childlike submission to office , at least at first ? Double check . Somewhere there ’s an adult sister touching himself to this movie right now .
Brazil . Jonathan Pryce wanders through most of the movie with a lost - small - boy look on his case . And when he woolgather about fighting back , it ’s as a childish fantasy sword - poor boy who is n’t all that good . It take Kim Greist and Robert DeNiro quetch his ass to get him to start take matter into his own manus . The movie acquaint his boyishness as loveable , even though it ’s a direct consequence of the oppressive system he experience in .
The Truman Show . The moving picture hearing loves Truman for much the same reason as his fictional spectator . His precious overgrown male child grin , his cutesy sayings . People watch out him sleep , like a pup . Everyone around him try out to keep him scared to go too far away from house , and his problem as an policy broker is all about clinging to security . He ’s a big kid .
The Island . Okay . Ewan McGregor and his fellow agnate endure pajamas . A“nannyish ” information processing system scan their urineand monitors their dieting . Black - clad guards rush over if manful and female ringer spend too much sentence touching each other . They ’re taught to dread the outside existence , and they do as they ’re told , wait to go to a storybook paradise hollo The Island . Basically , it ’s THX-1138 with hair .
Of course , all of these cinema end with our Heron growing up and casting off the corporate / State Department apron - strings . Otherwise , they ’d make for pretty leaden viewing . But first , they linger fondly over the spectacle of their Hero turned into kid , because all that retrogression provides an escapist thrill for us , the audience . And why not ? Is n’t that what ’s so seductive about tyrannic cultures in the first blank space ?
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