The film serves as a pastiche of 20th-century history, blending references to numerous dictatorships:
: To highlight the absurdity of absolute power, the film depicts Thorne reversing traffic signals (red meaning "go") and forcing women into burqas. Land of the Blind(2006)
Watch the official trailer for Land of the Blind to see the visual style of this political thriller: Land of the Blind - trailer - IFFR 2006 International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR YouTube• Dec 6, 2017 The film serves as a pastiche of 20th-century
The story is narrated by Joe (), an idealistic soldier who starts as a security guard in a brutal prison. He is assigned to watch over John Thorne ( Donald Sutherland ), a famous revolutionary playwright and "terrorist" leader who has been imprisoned and tortured for years. as Thorne: A character modeled on various revolutionary
as Thorne: A character modeled on various revolutionary figures who becomes the very thing he fought against.