False Utopias

August 21, 2008 | Share/Save

Gnostic movies about innocent adolescents held captive in seductive, womb-like false paradises, gilded cages which narcotize their inhabitants and so prevent them from achieving the growth, knowledge and freedom they so desperately need.


Pleasantville (New Line Platinum Series)	The Island	The Village (Widescreen Vista Series)

The Stepford Wives	Logans Run (1976)	Chicken Run

Equilibrium	THX 1138 - The Director’s Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)	The Truman Show (Special Collector’s Edition)