Vonnegut on Film.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: Briefly Noted - 2081 - Movie review - Brief article

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Clocking in at just 25 minutes, Chandler Tuttle's film 2081 captures the spare brutality of Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron," a tale about a world in which, thanks to "the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General ... everybody was finally equal." Equal not just in opportunity or wealth but in capability as well.

In Vonnegut's story, Harrison Bergeron is a brilliant, massive 14-year-old freak driven to delusions of grandeur by the shackles, weights, and disfiguring...