Scifiblock calls 2081 an "amazing twenty-six minutes," adding:
In short fiction of any medium, everything has to be perfect. Chandler Tuttle understands this and has crafted a film in which not a single step is out of place. "2081," adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron," depicts an imprisoning "ideal" United States, in which everyone is forced to wear handicapping devices so that they are equal on every level. The strong wear weights, the intelligent wear headphones that emit distracting bursts of noise, and the beautiful wear masks. The film alternates between a tired, weighted-down man watching television with his wife, and a rebel disrupting a ballet to fight for inequality. What transpires is beautiful.[...]
It would seem natural to call this film an Orwellian warning, but it is more accurately a portrayal of the necessity of embracing individuality - even, perhaps, if that individuality is abject. It is possible that in the far future such measures of social equalization would be considered by a government -- who knows? -- but "2081"'s value now is its demonstration of how great our differences make the world. And in a world devoid of such differences, a carefully coordinated defiant act becomes a moment of salvation. That which we thought was profane will become sacred.
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