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George Orwell's terrifying vision comes to the screen.

Overview

Imagine a world where absolute conformity rules, and word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. It's the year 1984 and such a world exists. Divided into three vast states, whose inhabitants are dominated by all powerful governments, an illegal love affair begins. Soon, worker drone Winston becomes the target of a brain-washing campaign to force him back to conformity.

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    John Hurt

    Winston Smith

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    Richard Burton

    O'Brien

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    Suzanna Hamilton

    Julia

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    Cyril Cusack

    Charrington

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    Gregor Fisher

    Parsons

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    James Walker

    Syme

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    Andrew Wilde

    Tillotson

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    David Cann

    Martin

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    Peter Frye

    Rutherford

Do not watch this movie if you are feeling pessimistic or depressed, because the kind of catharsis won’t help you. Nineteen-eighty-four is a bleak movie based on a dark novel that paints a totalitarian world that really sucks. Although they don’t merely tell lies over and over until devotees believe them - instead they actually rewrite historical details in newspapers — still it bears a striking and chilling parallel to the current moment. The acting is excellent and the sparing use of color is very effective, but I felt there were holes here and there details perhaps explained more fully i...