2081 Movie Analysis

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The movie Harrison Bergeron movie 2081 is similar to the Harrison Bergeron story in many ways. One point they are trying to get across is that everybody in that of world was equal. Everyone was equally smarter, equally stronger, and ect. Even if the person was smarter than the average people, they put a headset on you to make you less smarter. I think they they kept this point the same in both the book and the movie because if everyone was different, this whole plot wouldn’t work, or make sense. One example to support that is from a movie called “2081”, “ Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody… The strong wore weights to make them weaker. The intelligent wore earpieces that kept them from taking unfair

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