Wednesday, October 08, 2014

New Film Foreshadows Drug-Induced Mind Control Dystopia


2014's release of "The Congress" challenges the viewer to consider what the real outcome of the ultimate social fantasy will be. 

The film stars Robin Wright as herself, a successful Hollywood actress whose personal decisions have frustrated the Hollywood machine so many times that they no longer want to work with her. 

She is offered a contract to allow the company to capture her likeness and personality digitally but prohibiting her from ever working as an actress again.

‘The Congress’, based loosely on Stanislaw Lem's science fiction novel, "The Futurilogical Congress”, explores a possible future scenario that seems at times a little too prophetic .... https://www.youtube.com