Saltwater Film Society's screening of the 2006 film Idiocracy

Thomaston, Maine - On Thursday, February 7, at 6:30 pm, in Room 200 of the Thomaston Academy building, the Thomaston Public Library will host the Saltwater Film Society's screening of the 2006 film Idiocracy, a movie Slate magazine called the “feel-bad comedy of the year, about the silent killer of American civilization, namely our collective stupidity.” Slate went on to say that “Idiocracy is easily the most potent political film of the year.”

Idiocracy tells the fictional tale of Pvt. Joe Bowers, a soldier chosen to take part in a secret military experiment in which he will be put into induced hibernation for a year. Bowers is chosen because he is statistically the most average man in the army, but he’s forgotten mid-experiment when the military base closes. When he wakes up in 2505, national intelligence has taken such a nose-dive that Bowers is now the smartest man in the world.

For more information about the Saltwater Film Society, please see their website, http://www.saltwaterfilmsociety.org/about.html.