When George Orwell wrote his terrifying novel 1984 about a state that attempted to control every aspect of its citizens' lives he was compelled to invent the 'Thought Police' to patrol the few cubic centimetres inside the heads of the people.
And he invented a stripped down form of English called 'Newspeak' which had the ultimate aim of making it impossible to think a forbidden thought. Orwell's book is a tribute to the power of language to shape the way we think, and a testament to our minds' tendency to drift into prohibited channels.
For our thoughts to be regulated by a power outside ourselves, that power must give us only a limited number of ways to think, effectively excluding all other options. The secular film industry is engaged in precisely this secret war against us. This article is an attempt to expose their techniques by examining three recent films' attitude to rules.
