Julian touched Theo’s arm and looked him full in the face. “They shouldn’t treat human beings like that. No matter what they’ve done, what they are, they shouldn’t treat people like that. We have to stop it.” Theo said: “Obviously there are social evils, but they are nothing to what is happening in other parts of the world. It’s a question of what the country is prepared to tolerate as the price of sound government.” Julian asked: “What do you mean by sound government?” “Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear of war and crime, a reasonably equitable distribution of
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Here is a part where the movie is able to reach further than the book.
All of this feels present while you watch, but it is given to the audience entirely through setting and incident.
The text here lays the subtext all out, and it kind of demystifies itself by doing so -- the wires being completely visible and textual.
The movie accomplishes this same idea through 'show don't tell' -- like I said, through blocking and incident. By doing so, it is much harder to objectify, deflect and/or get a hold of -- it takes a hold of you.
