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The Man In The High Tower
buschmaster
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it's a tv show. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan won WWII, divided America between them, and people though oppressed and censored are otherwise allowed to live their lives under a seemingly "peaceful normality on the surface".
The fascist dystopia depicted in the series is disturbing, but the show's writers give viewers reason to hope. A mysterious "man in the high castle" is producing films that depict an alternative history in which the Allies win World War II and America is free and prosperous. The plot revolves around the desperate attempts of an aging Hitler to seize all of the films and find their creator. An air of mystery about the meaning of the films is only enhanced by the first season's expertly handled surprise ending.
Freedom is never likely to be surrendered in America in a quick, dramatic way through the arrival of an occupying army. But it can be - and to some extent already is being - lost through the gradual erosion of the freedom that makes democratic discussion and debate possible.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427722/censor-ads-man-in-the-high-castle-ironic-show-is-about-freedom
based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, directed by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Blackhawk Down) screenplay by Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files). scores 98% on the Tomatometer at rottentomatoes.com
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the-man-in-the-high-castle/
just starting. now playing Season 1 Episode 2. on the Amazon tv network. (wherever that is)
I don't have a tv so I can't watch it... have to wait for it to come out on DVD.
ironically, the buses were carrying ads for the show but the Governor of New York (Andrew Cuomo) and the Mayor of New York City (Bill de Blasio) teamed up to have them removed, over the objections of the Metro Transit Authority, who insist that the ads are covered under free speech, they don't have the right to pick and choose what ads are allowed.
Adam Lisberg, a spokesperson for the MTA, explained that the public agency had no choice but to allow the ads. "We cannot pick and choose the way WCBS radio can - whether it likes an ad or doesn't like an ad," he told WCBS Radio. "This advertising, whether you find it distasteful or not, obviously they're not advertising Nazism; they're advertising a TV show."
the ads were removed.
The fascist dystopia depicted in the series is disturbing, but the show's writers give viewers reason to hope. A mysterious "man in the high castle" is producing films that depict an alternative history in which the Allies win World War II and America is free and prosperous. The plot revolves around the desperate attempts of an aging Hitler to seize all of the films and find their creator. An air of mystery about the meaning of the films is only enhanced by the first season's expertly handled surprise ending.
Freedom is never likely to be surrendered in America in a quick, dramatic way through the arrival of an occupying army. But it can be - and to some extent already is being - lost through the gradual erosion of the freedom that makes democratic discussion and debate possible.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427722/censor-ads-man-in-the-high-castle-ironic-show-is-about-freedom
based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, directed by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Blackhawk Down) screenplay by Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files). scores 98% on the Tomatometer at rottentomatoes.com
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the-man-in-the-high-castle/
just starting. now playing Season 1 Episode 2. on the Amazon tv network. (wherever that is)
I don't have a tv so I can't watch it... have to wait for it to come out on DVD.
ironically, the buses were carrying ads for the show but the Governor of New York (Andrew Cuomo) and the Mayor of New York City (Bill de Blasio) teamed up to have them removed, over the objections of the Metro Transit Authority, who insist that the ads are covered under free speech, they don't have the right to pick and choose what ads are allowed.
Adam Lisberg, a spokesperson for the MTA, explained that the public agency had no choice but to allow the ads. "We cannot pick and choose the way WCBS radio can - whether it likes an ad or doesn't like an ad," he told WCBS Radio. "This advertising, whether you find it distasteful or not, obviously they're not advertising Nazism; they're advertising a TV show."
the ads were removed.