Akkam’s Razor

From FirstShowing:

The Wave is an compelling German film that premiered at Sundance earlier this year. It’s about a high school teacher who sets up an experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship, but it soon spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.

Assuming this is the same version (it isn’t) - I saw a 1981 broadcast version of the Wave (as an ABC Afterschool Special, broadcast in primetime) in high school psychology class in 1989/1990 [available in two parts on YouTube].  Both the upcoming and prior video versions of The Wave were based on a book, which was in turn inspired by a 1969 real-life Paolo Alto, California high school ‘experiment’.

It should come as no surprise to you that it was one of those marker events (the class and the Wave) towards the formation of my adult personality.  Sadly, the analogy will likely be beaten to death as representative of Obama, his ‘celebrity’, and the cult of personality - I guess more Christians will get told to bury their bibles in the ground.