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Is this another one of those movies that teach us how oppressive and horrible the idyllic 50s really were?


So we will think today's dystopia is wonderful by comparison?

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There's some of that but I don't think that was really the point of the movie. It was more just the backdrop to a mediocre story of murder and deceit.

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Sadly Hollywood is obsessed with this theme in the last few years

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