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Is this movie really about...


the 1950s McCarthy trials?

That is absolutely fascinating if that is true. Brilliant even.

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It's not about McCarthy trials, but was written as a metaphor for censorship due to the hysteria caused by the McCarthy era.






"The dead know nothing, they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten" Anon

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