Saturday 22 June 2013

Surveillance Cinema: 14 Movies Featuring Big Brother

V for Vendetta

V (Hugo Weaving) fights against the fascist regime that now controls the UK and imprisons homosexuals, political prisoners and other undesirables.
  

V for Vendetta 

Gattaca

In a biopunk future, children are selected through preimplantation genetic diagnosis to ensure the best hereditary traits possible. The world is then spilt into genetically engineered valids and the leftover in-valids.
  

Gattaca 

1984

After a global atomic war, an omnipresent government, headed by the party leader Big Brother, persecutes individualism and uses public mind control to sustain their totalitarian rule.
  

1984 

The Adjustment Bureau

Congressman David Norris (Matt Damon) discovers the existence of the Adjustment Bureau, a secret agency that ensures people's lives proceed as determined by "the plan."
  

The Adjustment Bureau 

Enemy of the State

A group of rogue NSA agents kill a Congressman and try to cover it up, but a lawyer (Will Smith) accidently comes into the possession of an incriminating videotape.
  

Enemy of the State  

The Net

When systems analyst (Sandra Bullock) is given a floppy disk that links cyber terrorists to tech mogul Gregg Microsystems, she finds that her entire identity has been erased.
  

The Net 

The Lives of Others

In 1984 East Berlin, a member of the secret police (Ulrich Muhe) conducts unsolicited surveillance on a playwright (Sebastian Koch) and his lover (Martina Gedeck).
  

The Lives of Others 

Brazil

In a dystopian future with a buffoonish totalitarian government, the film follows Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) who becomes an enemy of the state after he uses the government’s invasive files to locate a woman.
  

Brazil 

Eagle Eye

An anonymous caller coerces Jerry Shaw (Shia LeBouf) into carrying out a plan for a possible terrorist organization. The caller ends up being a top-secret intelligence gathering supercomputer, used by the government.
  
Eagle Eye 

Minority Report

In the year 2054, a specialized police department called “Pre Crime” apprehends criminals based on foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "precogs."
  

Minority Report 

The Truman Show

Jim Carey plays Truman Burbank, a man unaware that he is living in a constructed reality which is being broadcast around the clock to billions of people across the globe in the form of a television show.
  
The Truman Show 

Total Recall

Total Recall centers on an ordinary factory worker who accidentally discovers that his current life is a fabrication based on false memories implanted into his brain by the government.
  

Total Recall 

Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy

Set in London in the early 1970s, the story follows former spy George Smiley (Gary Oldman) and his hunt for a Soviet double agent at the top of the British secret service.
  

Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy 

The Matrix

Computer programmer Neo (Keanu Reeves) finds out the truth that humans are only able to perceive simulated reality called "the Matrix" which created by sentient machines to subdue the human population.
  

The Matrix 


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