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Political satire sends post-9/11 message on evil

Wednesday May 3 11:35 AM ET

Donald Sutherland has played plenty of bad guys in his time and in his new film "Land of the Blind" he gets to explore the roots of evil and how the victim can become the tyrant and torturer.

The political satire, which had its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this week, stars Sutherland as an imprisoned playwright who convinces a soldier, played by Ralph Fiennes, to help assassinate a tyrannical dictator in an unnamed country.



After the dictator is dead and Sutherland's group take power, the revolution turns sour and Fiennes's character ends up imprisoned for refusing to swear loyalty to the new regime.

The revolutionaries send intellectuals for re-education in internment camps and enforce such bizarre laws as one endorsing vegetarianism.

Alluding to historical examples from the French revolution to Romania, North Korea, Iran, the Soviet Union, Haiti, Cuba and Northern Ireland, the film blends absurd satire with dark scenes of torture, violence and summary executions.

Fiennes plays the decent soldier in "Land of the Blind" but he too has played his share of bad guys, notably a Nazi officer in "Schindler's List."

'PSYCHOTIC MENTALITY'

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/tribeca/news/vat/20060503/114668135800.html

[AbbeFaria]

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[Satori]

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