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: Once in power, Thorne proves to be a worse tyrant than his predecessor, instituting a repressive regime modeled after the Khmer Rouge, featuring re-education camps and extreme social controls. Joe eventually refuses to sign a loyalty oath to the new regime and is himself imprisoned. Themes and Historical Allusions

: It draws parallels to Stalinist Russia, Mao’s China, Mussolini’s Italy, and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Land of the Blind(2006)

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. : Once in power, Thorne proves to be