Oh my goodness, what a villainous role he delivers. The third main player in this menagerie of dystopian horrors is Burton’s O’Brien. This tooth is not going to yank itself out They have a sweet, passionate, thoughtful relationship which makes their forced betrayal at the end all the more heartbreaking. And she spent a whole lot more time in the nude than I remembered. Hamilton is pretty good though not on the same level as Hurt (but then again, few would be). And he perfectly captures the resignation of a man who is living under the unflinching eye and terrible boot of the state, but who seeks a spark of hope through his clandestine romance with fellow party worker Julia (Suzanna Hamilton). I’m normally not a huge fan of narration in film but I didn’t mind listening to Hurt’s rich tones. I adored the opening scene of the citizens shouting hate at the “enemies of the state” and the beautifully idyllic dreamscapes of Winston’s mind during the mental breaks from his torture sessions.Īnd speaking of Winston, John Hurt is so very good in this role.
The cinematography was done by the masterful Roger Deakins ( The Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner 2049, 1917) and the towering images of “Big Brother”, the tight, cramped shots, and the desolate war-ravaged areas all combine to instill a feeling of crushing oppression and utter desolation.
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This movie is very dark and very bleak, both literally and figuratively. If you are looking for a film to put you in a good mood, then 1984 is not it. Fornicating? No, we haven’t been fornicating. With a Big Brother-sized SPOILER ALERT let’s briefly revisit 1984. The film was directed by Michael Radford and stars the late great John Hurt as Smith and veteran actor Richard Burton as high-ranking Inner Party member O’Brien in what would be his final role.
Now I usually like to revisit films with rounder anniversaries like 35th or 40th and so forth, but the film is timeless and its themes of control, surveillance, information control and manipulation are very relevant in this present day.īased on George Orwell’s seminal novel of the same name, 1984 (which came out, you guessed it, in 1984) tells the story of a low level civil servant named Winston Smith living in a bleak, war-torn London ruled by a totalitarian state called Oceania. On October 10 British dystopian Sci Fi film 1984 celebrated its 37th anniversary.
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