atoms into suns

• Everything is gray or dark blue. Even the sky.
• All buildings are concrete or gray stone.
• Men's hair is slicked back. Women's hair is pulled back into a tight, headache-inducing bun.
• Furniture has only square corners and mirrored surfaces. It all looks uncomfortable. Desks have no drawers.
• Men and women wear identical clothing, which looks like a loose suit. They all have either exaggerated collars or Nehru collars. Gray or dark blue.
• Nothing is plastic.
• No one has friends. No one has family besides a spouse and two children, preferably a boy and a girl.
• No one eats or drinks. This is handy, because there are no plants or animals to eat anyway. (Or maybe they live on Soylent Green?)
• Regular doses of state-distributed drugs help to maintain order. Everyone takes these drugs without question.
• Everyone lives in the city, which is composed of a huge mass of high-rise buildings. People are the only living things in the cities.
• Everyone has a white-collar job.
• Everyone has steely eyes, chiseled cheeks, and twitchy jaw muscles.
• Emotion is best dealt with by splashing water on one's face, then looking in the mirror.
• The Great Leader never exists, but is only a mythical figurehead.
• Ceilings are always at least 50 feet high.
• Walls are always bare. No artwork exists.
• However, the real leader always has artwork and colored walls.
• No one has personal possessions besides clothing and a watch.
• Everything is always in perfect order, even though no one ever cleans.
• No one talks unless it's required to advance the plot.
• There is supposedly never any crime. Any criminal activity is dealt with immediately by a squad of heavily armed riot police with a really imposing vehicle.
• Propaganda is constantly playing in the background in public places and workplaces, and no one ever has trouble concentrating.
• Everyone has identical pajamas, which look nearly identical to daytime clothing minus socks and shoes.
• No one needs sheets or blankets.
• Beds are all twin-size and look uncomfortable.
• Guns apparently synthesize their own ammunition on the spot, since they go through vast amounts of it without having to reload.
• Guns are fine for most of the fighting, but the last fight is always with bare hands or samurai swords.
• No one has hobbies or interests. No one reads or watches TV.
• There is no music.
• Everyone works every day, without vacation or weekends.
• Everyone is in excellent physical condition, with chiseled muscles, despite never exercising (or eating). No one ever gets sick.
• No one has a soul or a life.
• There is an underground resistance movement that breaks nearly all of these rules and is therefore considered a dangerous menace.

Update (9 July 2005 0048): Anumod (neurohavoc) is trying to come up with movies that defy the list above.