2081 Movie Analysis

The movie 2081 is based off of the short story Harrison Bergeron, yet the stories are kind of different from each other. In both there are similarities and differences, some are obvious and others are buried deep within the context of both. Even though there are similarities, the differences in the story are just as important. The similarities that the filmmaker kept were substantial in order to relate the movie to the story. The overall main ideal of both was vital to keeping the flow between the film and the movie. In keeping the main ideal the filmmaker must’ve kept same sequence of events and the same time period. If this was change or omitted out of the movie it would’ve threw the whole story off. This help the viewer attentive by giving the movie a futuristic view . The most vital element that filmmaker kept when he made the film was the theme ; living in a society where everything is made equal, literally . The entire United States was “made equal “ by suppressing any attribute of a person that gave anyone advantage over another person . If this was altered in anyway the whole purpose would have been destroyed. Equality was shown throughout the entire passage and film .

In the story Diana Moon Glamsper was in charge of dumbing down and disabling the handicaps, all by herself. This is shown when in the story when the author stated “It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor. “ In the story it shown her to have absolute authority and handle every situation by herself . Versus in the film she was assisted by the SWAT team in capturing Harrison. The change in the movie affected how I seen Diana Moon Glampser, as a person because she didn’t seem to have as much power as the story exaggerated her to