2014s release of The Congress challenges the viewer to consider what the real outcome of the ultimate social fantasy will be. The film stars Robin Wright as herself, a successful Hollywood actress whose personal decisions have frustrated the Hollywood machine so many times that they no longer want to work with her. She is offered a contract to allow the company to capture her likeness and personality digitally but prohibiting her from ever working as an actress again. ‘The Congress’, based loosely on Stanislaw Lems science fiction novel, The Futurilogical Congress”, explores a possible future scenario that seems at times a little too prophetic. The result is a film that presents an archetypal warning which has been echoed by many great artists throughout the decades; once humanity allows itself to be consumed by fantasy and deception it opens the door to a totalitarian dictatorship...
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:57:24 +0000
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