I just found this online. Apparently they're making a short science fiction film based on Kurt Vonnegut's short story Harrison Bergeron.
http://www.finallyequal.com/I'm stunned they're doing this. And, actually, incredibly fascinated by the trailer...I love Kurt Vonnegut's writings. I didn't realize that he'd written something like this...which will inevitably make me go out and buy the short story lol Then I'll have to watch the film. I have to see if they've done him justice.
For anyone not familiar with dystopian literature, I've copied a definition of it here:
"A dystopian society is one in which the conditions of life are
miserable, characterized by human misery, poverty, oppression, violence, disease, and/or pollution.
Some academic circles distinguish between anti-utopia and dystopia. As in
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four,
a dystopia does not pretend to be utopian, while an anti-utopia appears
to be utopian or was intended to be so, but a fatal flaw or other
factor has destroyed or twisted the intended utopian world or concept."
I've been reading these sorts of stories for awhile
Just watching this makes me want to go out and buy more books...I'm such a book nerd
... poopy?