Of which THX 1138 Equilibrium both drew inspiration from. I'm talking about the George Orwell book not the John Hurt film.
"Just because I wear the same tiny shorts everyday doesn't mean I don't wear many hats" Coach
Which in turn is loosely based on "We", a dystopian novel by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin, who emigrated to the UK soon after the Soviet Union was founded. It has a stronger resemblance to this film's plot, as "We" depicts a society where emotions and imagination are suppressed, and at the end of the novel forcibly removed. Orwell himself said he used it as a model for "1984" and even accused Aldous Huxley of lying when claiming his "Brave New World" was not inspired by "We".
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