El Hombre Obsoleto
Título V.O.: The Obsolete Man
Guión: Rod Serling
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Fecha de emisión en USA: 02/06/1961
Guest Starring: Burgess Meredith (Romney Wordsworth), Fritz Weaver (Chancellor), Josip Elic (Subaltern), Harry Fleer (Guard), Barry Brooks (First Man), Harold Innocent (Second Man), Jane Romeyn (Woman)
Sinopsis: En un futuro en el que el mundo está controlado por una tiranía donde está prohibido pensar, leer o tener cualquier debilidad, un bibliotecario es juzgado y sentenciado a muerte por ser obsoleto. Pero guarda un as en la manga...
Frases destacadas:
Opening Narration: You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the superstates that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace. This is Mr. Romney Wordsworth, in his last forty-eight hours on Earth. He's a citizen of the State but will soon have to be eliminated, because he is built out of flesh and because he has a mind. Mr. Romney Wordsworth, who will draw his last breaths in the Twilight Zone.
Closing Narration: The Chancellor - the late Chancellor - was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under 'M' for mankind in the Twilight Zone.
