Spoilers for 1984 - so if you didn’t get assigned that book in high school, look away I guess.
The villainous government in 1984 has a special “re-education” room they torture dissidents in. Famously no one knows what’s inside - but everyone knows. It’s simply “the worst thing in the world”. The surveillance state - knowing everyone’s worst fear - then puts people in contact with their worst fears in order to break their mind and coerce them to obey.
The protagonist of 1984 is pathological terrified of rats. So when the government breaks him, they lock his head in a cage with a rat in front and threaten to open the door keeping the rat away from his face…
Spoilers for 1984 - so if you didn’t get assigned that book in high school, look away I guess.
The villainous government in 1984 has a special “re-education” room they torture dissidents in. Famously no one knows what’s inside - but everyone knows. It’s simply “the worst thing in the world”. The surveillance state - knowing everyone’s worst fear - then puts people in contact with their worst fears in order to break their mind and coerce them to obey.
The protagonist of 1984 is pathological terrified of rats. So when the government breaks him, they lock his head in a cage with a rat in front and threaten to open the door keeping the rat away from his face…
Which is the scene above.
Okay. I’ve read the book, but it’s been a while. And I’ve never seen the movie.
Thanks