The Smoking man Rod Serling mastermind of "The Twilight Zone" using his logical mindset poke the totalitarian systems as Communism and Nazism as well, where the men are pure pawns at hands of the empowered class of blind politicians who ruled by unchanging dogmatic system and over the shadow of the fear, in this weird environment the humble librarian Romney Wordsworth (Burgess Meredith) is taken to Courthouse to be judge as obsolete man, useless to new society, where the books, philosophy and the religion is no longer make sense, all this were banned of this community , baffled Mr. Wordsworth tries by any means explain that his job is upmost importance, due all the books are the prestine knowledge that human race gathered through countless centuries by poets, philosophers, scientists, holly and wise men and all sort of writers giving to the mankind the background knowledge to the upcoming future at sight, however the cold and septic Chancellor (Fritz Weaver) disowns all statements gave by the wise Wordsworth, in 48 hours he must be executed on own choice, the old man claims that his execution must be aired by television broadcasting nationally, how it were routinely offered for the citizens, it is accepts on plenty, nonetheless Mr. Wordsworth planned something more, by far ones the greater episode of the whole series, at final Serling points out that without democracy there's no future to mankind, where every single person has the own right of choice whatsoever!!!
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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.5
Thanks for reading.
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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.5