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Directed by British filmmaker Michael Radford, Nineteen Eighty-Four is the second film adaptation of the George Orwell novel. The film is set during April of 1984 in post-atomic war London, the capital city of the repressive totalitarian state of Oceania. Winston Smith (John Hurt) is a government bureaucrat whose job is rewriting history and erasing people from existence. While his co-worker Parsons (Gregor Fisher) seems content to follow the state's laws, Winston starts to write in a secret
Oct 10, 1984 Wide
Mar 4, 2003
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Solid version of the famous sci-fi novel. Big Brother again rules.
A scary reminder of how easily totalitarian ideas and ideals crop up in societies and take fierce hold.
Better than to be expected adaptation of the book. Not bad, but nothing worthy writing Big Brother about.
Slow moving and hard to follow. Not nearly as good as it should have been. Just go read the book instead.
É bom ver o cinema cumprindo uma velha função que, às vezes, é esquecida: levar o espectador a refletir sobre si mesmo e sobre a sociedade em que vive.
There are just some stories that are better left on paper. For all my love of Orwell (and believe me it runs deep) there was something sordid about watching some of my most beloved and loathed characters play out on the screen, however well the actors delivered on their end of the bargain. When it comes to something so
October 5, 2011Super Reviewer
O'Brien: Power is tearing human minds apart and putting them back together in new shapes of your own choosing. "Big Brother is watching"1984 may be a great book, but as far as this movie goes; I didn't care for it at all. The only thing I liked about the movie was the always great Roger Deakins and his cinematography.
September 28, 2011
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