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THE LOBOT MODS 003 :Equilibrium (2002) / A Clockwork Orange (1971)
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Two dystopian futures where the masses are controlled by taking away their emotions. A peaceful society at the cost of not appreciating poetry. It's monstrous. But the fighting looks cool.
We take a look at Kurt Wimmer's 2002 film EQUILIBRIUM, starring Christian Bale, and compare that totalitarian state with Stanley Kubrick's eye-popping, retina scratching 1971 film A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, starring Malcolm McDowell. Do these movies have something profound to say about the autonomy of the citizen? Or are these movies merely reveling in the cartoonish nature of the violence?
In a wide-ranging conversation, hosts Aaron Wood and Paul Docherty pontificate wildly, swimming in the future visions of their imagined past, making outrageous comparisons to Star Wars along the way...
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Music by Tony Longworth
Cover art based on a photograph taken by Jon Nicolls CC-BY-2.0
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