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tgillin-2
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1990 (1977)
Authorised Systematic Harassment
30 January 2007 - 10 out of 11 users found this review helpful.
"1990", along with "The Guardians", represents great British "political" sci fi from the 1970s. I heartily agree with the previous commentator who looked forward to a "1990" DVD reissue. Let's hope they do a double with "The Guardians".
The real innovation of the show was not the police state future conjured up, that's been done before, but the fictional dictatorship's use of "Authorised Systematic Harassment". This amounted to essentially the use of all the mundane irritating rules and regulations we are familiar with today, in a systematic, targeted and tyrannical way.
1990 was a lot more innovative and chilling than modern movie treatments like "V".
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