Film review: 1984 (1984) directed by Michael Radford.

Hello everyone, I wanted to give my honest review of the 1984 film that came out funnily in 1984. I thought it was a clever idea to bring out a film of George Orwell's Nineteen (1949) in 1984. I have seen this film twice. The second time was recently actually and my initial reaction to seeing it was how stark it looked. The setting had no roads or pavements, just dirt to walk across. This for me drew me in to this totalitarian world immediately.

Having the scenes where Winston sat down to ate felt like a prison and it was the clothing that further illustrated this. The thing with the clothes is that you had these dark blue boiler suits everyone had to wear which to me was depicted as uniform, therefore making everyone all conform. That kept everyone under rule of the party.

I also noted how the scenery was often grey or at least in highly muted shades which made this dystopian world of Orwell's a rather dreary one and bleak, with nothing exciting to look forward to. I guess the idea was to not give the characters something for them to think about, something that might cause them to rebel.

Overall I thought this was a good film. Good in the sense of capturing George Orwell's vision. Me personally, I did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would. The dreariness was what I think caused me to enjoy it a little less. However, there were moments that caused me to grimace, feel a bit of shock even therefore because of that, I give it a 6.5/10. I really could not choose between a 6 or 7!

Until next time,


Thomas.

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