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1984 made in 1984. george orwell's drama about the social order of war.
this version is hard to take. its never fun, never exciting, and never moving. which is perhaps exactly what it should be, however it makes for a difficult movie to enjoy. our hero is a boring man with a boring job rewriting parts of history. we get to see him and others taking part in this action as uninterested as can be. he falls in love with a woman and begins to do things outside of what he is intended to do. all of which is a huge set up to his arrest and reprogramming as a model citizen complete with his confession of his wrongdoings.
i can't say i remember the book all that well anymore and perhaps the movie intended to follow it accurately.
the visual movie is stunning. stark colors, unique characters, industrial decayed sets. its lovely in its ugliness.
storywise it drags on slowly and with orwell's "doublethink" dialog which is difficult to follow at times. orwell's heavy handed hatred of military abounds here as well. its all true, yes, but its seems so obvious now. maybe when we were younger these things are less clear, and maybe back in the day before the internet made opinions so prevalent this was an important message. today orwell's message would have to account for how opinion is manipulated.
its a great movie truthfully and i personally like it, but its very slow and not something i'd watch twice in a period of 10 or so years.
8/10
