1984

The film is gray and drab, setting an atmosphere of hopelessness and despair...for those awake to the true reality. Others among the Sheeple wouldn't know any different. The film does a good job of sticking to Orwell's novel, but I came away wanting more. More of the inner workings of the Party and more of Winston's daily life of meager existence. If you've read the book, you'll be able to fill in the pieces. You are required to use your imagination a bit and this is where having read the book will help immensely. I once read that one page in a script translates into one minute on screen. To do Orwell's nightmare justice another thirty minutes would have been welcomed. All in all, this is a great movie. Ever try to find it for sale? Wonder why it's so hard to get...What's scary is the parallels to today's times. In the book Orwell states that the war is never meant to be won, but all that matters is that it be indefinite. War on Terror anyone? Goldstein was the Party's favorite whipping boy. Osama Bin Laden perhaps? Quite a useful tool these past ten years, but even the political string pullers knew his usefulness had come to an end - He either died in Tora Bora or shortly thereafter of renal failure. The ever present telescreens with Big Brothers face? Cameras everywhere we turn these days recording our every move, and not to mention the proles all to eager to give every bit of their personal information away on Facebook. And yet they randomly complain about privacy settings. Ever watch Wag The Dog? How easy is it to pull off a hoax and get the brain dead public to believe a lie?What didn't exist before 9/11? The DHS and the Patriot Act. But you didn't really need those Constitutional rights and freedoms anyway. Did you? The ever present and never ending War on Terror was born. Ever since there's been a high profile botched terror attempt here and there...that we somehow magically stop in the nick of time! Let's all cheer and agree we need to lose more of our freedoms in support of this war. The book parallel? That female voice once again telling us about some small victory won in the latest battle. Here's an excerpt from the book that fits. Think of this every time there is a staged attack or attempt:"Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, She startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, `just to keep people frightened.'" Anything to keep the public school graduates believing the lie.Recently the crowds gathered outside the White House to cheer Osama's killing. Reminded me of the Two Minutes Hate for Goldstein and his associates. And what about Big Sis Napolitano's plan to use Facebook and text messages to keep us informed about how scared we should be as well as how glad we are that our freedoms are rapidly vanishing? Just like the omnipresent female voice blaring out of the telescreen. Just visit a Wal Mart and you'll see the telescreen.No need to think for yourself in these times. The public school system has taken care of that. Just vote for one of the two major parties. They're both bought and paid for and voting for one is really a vote for the other. At the end of the day, they're the same. It's all a card game with a stacked deck not in our favor.False Flag attacks have been a tool used for a long time. Hitler burning the Reichstag; Johnson sinking the USS Liberty, Operation AJAX, Gulf of Tonkin, and Operation Gladio to name a few.Read the book, watch the movie and think about these times we're living in. Ask yourself who profits and what is the reaction by the government after these staged attempts.Wake up people. The TSA will soon be at the mall and train and bus stations. It won't be long before we have to go through a scanner at every major sporting event. I guess the reasoning is violating non-Middle Eastern descent American citizens' Constitutional rights prevents Islamic terror?Orwell's vision is a warning where we are headed...it's just too bad that message is lost on those more interested in American Idol and Dancing with the Stars.

Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) had a famous correspondence with his pupil George Orwell in regard to the nature of the "World of Tomorrow" as it were.I enjoy the overt references to incendiary disposal, a frequently occurring motif in Orwell's work.Here's a thought crime: V's revolution topples Norsefire, and INGSOC quickly moves to fill the power vacuum. Nothing changes, and ideas are still anonymous and bulletproof. Parliament and Big Ben are everywhere, any Merry Poppin's chimney sweep doesn't know when to show up for work, so Britain generally decays and ensures that Maid Maryanne's "Ass to Ass" scene from "Requiem For a Dream" is blamed on the lingering presence of a Goldstein associate "Goldfarb" (well known for its secret love of electric stimulation). Hannibal Lecter takes an arm instead of a mind in this later iteration (his 1984-era ancestor is much more crude, as evidenced by the Clockwork mechanism of his society and the rampant Ultraviolence documented outside of this report).The human butchery and abuse generally escalates straight through Pink Floyd's Animals as well as Orwell's Animal Farm. By the time "*INGSOCIETY" gets a clue, everyone is writing a Canticle for Leibowitz (rumored descendent of Goldfarb). It is a well known fact that the Dictionary of Newspeak's Nuspeak title is "Mein Kampf". Exactly 1 day (or 157,788,000,000 seconds) later the 2-headed mutants of Mary the Mutant invade from Mars, resulting in a War of the Worlds. The Martians and Oceanians agree to an Armistice in a train car outside of Paris, which is suspected to be the location where the first plot to subvert Victorious Functioning Society was hatched: A Brave New World where nothing works, and everything is a remix of a fiction.Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, while a Red Queen guards bedlam (patients and specimens constantly running amok constantly within the biolab/sanitarium)."All this running just to stay in place".This post is thrown into an Orwell furnance, which has been preheated to 451 Fahrenheit. It pops directly into the mind Kurtz in the dimension of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" shortly before he dies. Nobody ever hears about it, and the implications are flatly denied when seriously presented in cross-examinations; nobody needs to know if it's true, because the mere ideas are sufficiently stark.

I enjoy getting a visual for a book I had just read, but I think what the movie lacks is an accurate portrayal of the oppression, misinformation, and control over the past. The Ministry of Truth scenes aren't revealing enough of the world that they live in. The scenes were just a bit too quick and did not provide much information as to what exactly Winston was doing. Though, I understand how it would be a bit difficult to portray what he was doing as pretty much the whole book is composed of Winston's philosophical thoughts.Doing justice to the book is one thing, but besides that, the pacing of events is really strange, major incidents, which would be important to the story and plot progression, were cut out

Gift

Ok

Great adaptation to a movie feature from this classic story. Beware dark themes and disturbing images!!

1984年製。ジョージ・オーウェルの今読んでも心胆寒からしめるディストピア物の同名小説を原作に、野心家リチャード・ブランソン率いるヴァージン・シネマの製作作品として鳴り物入りで発表された作品です。　大変な熱意を持って挑んだ監督・脚本のラドフォードは会社からの数々の注文に難渋した様子。　過去作含めて最もリアルに映像化された本作。　それ故、陰々滅々とした映画になるのは致し方が無く、当時ヴァージン・レコードのドル箱デュオだったユーリズミックスのサントラ起用も明らかにミスマッチで、同時期に同テーマをブラック・ユーモア作として撮った（でも怖い所は怖い）傑作「未来世紀ブラジル」と比較され、オマケに日本初の合法的ヘアー解禁映画で有ると言う本来作品とは関係ない部分で注目を浴びてしまう不運も御座いました。　それでも、被虐者演技の名人でもある芸達者で繊細なジョン・ハートは原作のウィンストン・スミスのイメージにピッタリです。　後半部は殆ど拷問・洗脳シーンの連続で場を持たせられるのは彼しか考えられません。　ハートと二人で演技合戦をするのが体調不良と闘い、何度もリテイクを繰り返しながら本作に挑んだオブライエン役のリチャード・バートン（本作が遺作となりました）。　これも過去の作品の颯爽としたオブライエン役者（アンドレ・モレル、マイケル・レッドグレーブ）より原作に近い権力と加齢に倦み疲れ切った雰囲気がピッタリの配役です。　スザンヌ・ハミルトンの体当たり演技も見物でした。　素晴らしい演技陣に美術、ワザと特殊な薬液に浸し色褪せさせたフィルムの感触と、ユーリズミックスの起用で多くの曲が未使用となったドミニク・マルダウニーが作曲した全体主義国オセアニアの愛国歌「Oceania “Tis for Thee”」等は見事な出来です。　ユーリズミックスも素晴らしいグループですし、エンディングに流れた「ジュリア」自体は名曲なのですが、これ程シンセのシークエンサーの音が似合わない作品も無い為、気の毒でした。　他の映像作品も佳作ですが余りにも古い為（映画は1956年製。エドモンド・オブライエンが主役。ＢＢＣの名作ＴＶ番組は1954年製。ピーター・クッシング主役。）現在初めて観る1984としてはベストかもしれませんが、かなり惨いシーンと前記ヌード場面が有る為ご注意を。　原作を読んでから挑むとより解り易くなります。　本作はリージョン２ながら信号方式がPALの為、再生環境にご注意を。　画面は上記製作者が拘った退色感を再現したDVDとしては最高級の物。　特典は豊富な字幕'7カ国語。但し日本語は無し）と英・独・仏・西語の吹替え、劇場予告編でした。

It's the movie. What else could you want?!

観ていて切なくなる。原作も途中までしか読めなかった。しかし、こういう国が現在もあるのだ！　その意味でも、Owell の優れた洞察力はスゴイ！

リージョンコードはB。国内のプレイヤーでは再生できません。日本語字幕が無いのは承知してましたが他の言語にも字幕ありませんでした。DVDには数ヶ国語の字幕あったのですが。国内盤の発売を切に望みます。追記(2017.09.27)ついに国内盤の販売が決定！(2018年1月)流れないことを祈ってます。