Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Genre: Drama / Scifi
Duration: 113 minuten
Alternative title: 1984
Country:
United Kingdom
Directed by: Michael Radford
Stars: John Hurt, Richard Burton and Suzanna Hamilton
IMDb score:
7,0 (87.575)
Releasedate: 9 November 1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four plot
"George Orwell's terrifying vision comes to the screen."
Film adaptation of George Orwell's book of the same name. After a nuclear war, the world is divided into three supercontinents. Winston Smith lives in London, which is the capital of Oceania. He, like all human beings, is undergoing the strict regime exercised by the state. The people have no freedom there and there is a total absence of privacy. Big Brother is always and everywhere lurking with cameras and spies. And then Winston makes a big mistake: he falls in love.
Actors and actresses
Winston Smith
O'Brien
Julia
Charrington
Parsons
Syme
Tillotson
Martin
Rutherford
Waiter
Reviews & comments
Geno
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- 303 messages
- 225 votes
I really had to commit myself to see the film. It's heavy. I knew that. I had already read the book... and it is not for nothing a book that you must have read. A stunner in world literature. In the book you and the main character undergo numerous processes of spiritual decline. The struggle to preserve logic, which is ultimately destroyed by the utter madness and manipulation of a totalitarian regime. There is no escaping if the individual does not count but the system alone. Although this was based on communist regimes, examples still abound today. Calmly add to it the indoctrination of religious dictatorships in which individual and spiritual freedoms are also trampled underfoot. Either way, it won't bother you. It is a book that you will never forget, it is a book that shapes you, and in a sense always 'takes' with you. And then make a film about it... well... that's almost asking for trouble.
I can only say that the filmmakers got the essence right. The dehumanization is very well portrayed. Of course always different than that it came to you in literary form itself, but still.... That is really an achievement. I've read the book and seen the movie. But this must really be it. I'm really going to leave it at this... because it does tickle all your gloom.
A big enough...
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N00dles
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- 633 messages
- 2308 votes
In "1984" Orwell very resourcefully sketches a dystopian society with a totalitarian regime. Certainly before that time it had been creatively written and also had a major influence on future books and films. However, it was occasionally a bit dry and I found Animal Farm more fun to read.
Then the movie; it follows the book faithfully in both plot and atmosphere. The grey, soulless world has been carefully designed and portrayed.
I do think that it will probably be a fairly vague and unclear film for the non-reader. It is told quite fragmentarily and cryptically. Sometimes a voice-over or a little more emotion in Winston's face could have cleared up a lot. Where the book has the ability to understand Winston's thoughts, this is often more difficult in the medium of film.
In addition, it is also just a bit too alienating and emotionless; on the one hand, this reinforces the uncanny feeling, on the other hand, it also makes the film a tough one. I think the film could use a (good) remake.
3*
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