freedom
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In a totalitarian society, laughter is sometimes a liberating, even rebellious act. If the satirical exaggeration made the depressing setting of Terry Gilliam’s first dystopia Brazil bearable, 12 monkeys, the second film in the so-called Orwellian triptych, is surprisingly humourless for a director who grew up in the Monty Python comedy troupe. This may be
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It is the first book to be officially banned in the Soviet Union. Three years previously, Zamyatin had fought on the side of the Bolsheviks in the February and October Revolutions and was considered a harsh critic of the Russian Empire, but the horrors of the revolution soon dashed all illusions of a better future.
Dennis Biba 