Land of the Blind

Land of the Blind is a 2006 BritishAmerican black comedy drama film starring Ralph Fiennes, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander and Lara Flynn Boyle.

Hollander plays Maximilian II often called Junior, the ignorant, vindictive and petulant ruler of a troubled but unnamed country. Maximilian has two main interests enjoying himself and running his countrys movie industry. The output of the nations film studios under Maximilian is limited to terrible actionadventure schlock with names like Out For Vengeance 4. While it is heavily implied that Junior is a childish sadist, it is conceded that his excesses are only bolstered by the encouragement of his beautiful, yet cruel, wife Josephine Boyle and the violence dealt by antigovernment terrorists.Ralph Fiennes plays Joe, a prison warder working at the prison where John Thorne is held at the beginning of the movie. During this early period, Thorne is a wreck, squatting in a shabby cell, enduring frequent beatings from the other guards and writing revolutionary slogans on the walls with his own feces. Joe comes to learn from Thorne and respect him for his bearing and intellect, if not his message. Maximilian, trying to quash spiraling dissent, takes the risk of letting Thorne out of jail, hoping to have him thus become not a great folk hero but another greedy, dishonest politician. Joe, too, is soon promoted to one of the guards at Maximilians palace and a position in the countrys elite military unit. After seeing Juniors madness first hand, it is he who betrays his master by letting Thorne and his followers into the palaces inner chambers while he and Josephine are engaged in a revolting sex game. Thorne shoots the pair, and becomes a ruler governing a country as absolutely totalitarian, if not more so, than the deceased Maximilian. Thorne also encourages separating children from their parents, bans action movies and eliminates imported medicine all while sending the countrys professional classes to grim reeducation camps. Frightened females cower underneath burqalike garments. ........

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