George Orwell's timeless classic about
the futuristic tyrany ruthelessly controlling and brainwashing its minions longed
for a decent movie adaptation ever since it was written. That adaptation finally
came in a Michael Radford's
version from 1984.
Although the script altered the original
book significanly (especially towards the end) the main idea is there, gaining strength
and destruction as time goes by. Simply, the modern everyday political world
became the one Orwell described, and we are those minions being harassed. The
movie itself will follow that main idea nicely, using grim production sets and
Nazi-like costimography to illustrate the harshness of the „Ingsoc” party and
Big Brother. John Hurt
and particularly Richard Burton
played their roles reliably, as well as the supporting cast. The very end will
be sort of a anticlimax, but that won't alter the overall positive impression.
„1984” is a great book transferred into
a very good movie.
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