In the 2018 French science fiction television series Nu, written and directed by Olivier Fox, naturist activist Jean Lanvin (Thomas Séraphine) successfully campaigns for an ordinance to make public nudity the norm in France, arguing, with little evidence, that a nation that supports such an ambitious commitment to openness will be freer, friendlier, and safer. Class distinctions will vanish, and crime and terrorism will be eliminated. His proposal attracts the support of an authoritarian-curious politician named Simoni (Bruno Paviot), who is intrigued by the Orwellian possibilities of a society that disavows privacy. When the ordinance passes, public nudity is mandated by what comes to be known as the Transparency Act, and those who wear clothing face suspicion, social ostracization, and, eventually, even arrest. 🪐
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In the 2018 French science fiction television series Nu, written and directed by Olivier Fox, naturist activist Jean Lanvin (Thomas Séraphine) successfully campaigns for an ordinance to make public nudity the norm in France, arguing, with little evidence, that a nation that supports such an ambitious commitment to openness will be freer, friendlier, and safer. Class distinctions will vanish, and crime and terrorism will be eliminated. His proposal attracts the support of an authoritarian-curious politician named Simoni (Bruno Paviot), who is intrigued by the Orwellian possibilities of a society that disavows privacy. When the ordinance passes, public nudity is mandated by what comes to be known as the Transparency Act, and those who wear clothing face suspicion, social ostracization, and, eventually, even arrest.
While this is an interesting situation, I don't always agree with the conclusions. I certainly WOULDN'T want to see laws PREVENTING people from wearing clothes in most public places, I do MOST CERTAINLY frown upon laws that PREVENT people from being nude in public. It is DEFINITELY the right of a business to control whether or not people can be nude on that business's premises. For instance, a store owner may require clothes in his store, BUT he has NO right to hinder or harass nude people who are on the public sidewalk or street in front of his store. The same goes for a homeowner or renter. When people can accept others, whether nude or clothed, we are on our way to a better society. NO, this won't prevent people who practice thievery, or a multitude of REAL crimes, but to raise our children with the common knowledge of the naked human body, and the right to be naked in public will go a LONG LONG way toward good mental health in our lives.
Has the 2018 French Science Fiction Television Series "Nu" been made into an English language television series?