LEGO movie analysis

1984/LEGO Movie Analysis Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in literary work. It has been discovered that there is indeed a common theme surrounding both George Orwell’s novel 1984 and the LEGO movie. These pieces of literature serve to warn its readers/audience of the dangers of totalitarianism. Both the movie and the novel portray a “perfect” totalitarian society, where the government has complete and total power and control. When one looks beneath the surface of these “perfect” societies, it becomes evident that they are nothing of the sort. These “perfect” societies have removed individual expression and has caused everyone to be conditioned to think alike. The citizens are conditioned to meet the needs of their country, and do only what their leadership tells them to. The way in which the society is set up costs them their individuality and humanity.

Totalitarianism describes a political system in which the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life, wherever possible. With this type of government, there is always a main leader in whom is the driving force of the issue - the one who is in charge of this “perfect society” and runs it as he or she pleases. Orwell uses the Party in representation of the totalitarian government, and Big Brother as the leader. In the LEGO movie, President Business is the leader of the totalitarian government.

Part of what makes totalitarianism easy for the leaders’ ideas and concepts to be accepted and not given any thought to is through psychological manipulation. If the leaders can successfully make the citizens not question their authority, half of their job is done. In 1984, Big Brother uses various forms of mind control on the citizens of Oceania. They exercise this manipulation through the use of large telescreens all around them that continuously displays propaganda and other media that praises the Party - never showing its