Movies: Authority

In this French Canadian film, the lives of teenagers are examined in fantasy sequences and through the use of documentary interviews. Prompted by the filmmaker, nine teenagers individually act out their secret dreams and, between times, talk about t...

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The year is 2018. An oppressive authoritarian stranglehold rules the land. The country was divided into regions. To prevent chances of rebellion, the government conceives a nameless drug to be forcefully sold to the people....

Against a backdrop of electrocution, dominance, and scientific precision, wasps nest in an abandoned refrigerator, eyelashes flutter, curtains blow in open windows, and queers congregate. Adapting Stanley Milgram's 1963 experiment on obedience to aut...