Kids now study media and film in school experts and academics like Chomsky and Baudrillard have laid bare the inner workings of media based control. In the years since the book was published it could be argued that people are more media savvy and openly understand that we are being force fed someone’s agenda, and the fact that this is more often than not coming from the ruling elite.
The feeling that you understand the methods of control, albeit in a nicely-packaged capitalist world, was still a transcendent experience. Knowing someone was trying to sell me something, tell me something and basically influence me at every turn was a liberating awakening as a 15-year-old trying to make sense of it all. I was instantly aware of the mass of information which was permeating the consciousness through television, news, movies, posters and propaganda. Reading the book instantly made me question a lot about the media I was consuming. Any deviation from Big Brother’s party line is swiftly and severely dealt with. His language is tempered, his thoughts are monitored, news and history is altered and every waking act is under strict observation. The manipulation of everyday aspects of life in Orwell’s world are absolute and frightening.
Although it was primarily a political novel, charged with darkly twisted remarks on communism at the beginning of the cold war era, it is the element of control held over Winston by the ruling powers that spoke loudest to me when I first read the novel. One of the most striking things about the book is that it was written in 1949. A world where even the thoughts of men can be controlled and manipulated. Against the backdrop of a never ending war, and constant observation from the duplicitous citizens who inhabit Winston’s world, he searches for humanity where it appears to have been lost. The story follows the central character of Winston, who toils to survive in a world overshadowed by Big Brother, a construction of the ruling elite. George Orwell’s ‘1984’ is a widely regarded as one of the most influential works of dystopian fiction. Video: Widescreen 1.Nineteen Eighty-Four – The Book vs The Film George Orwell's 1984 DVD is as relevant today as it was when it was first released.Īctors: Suzanna Hamilton, John Hurt, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack 1984 DVD is a powerful and engaging social commentary film.ġ984 DVD remains a critical thinking film of a dystopian totalitarian future. This is a must own film for any serious movieĬollector. Ultimate muscle in this hyper chilling and brutal exercise in Have individual thoughts the iron fist of the party in power flexes its When Hurt's character falls in love and he begins to John Hurt and Richard Burton both give amazing performancesĪs this story of government having supreme power and control over its George Orwell's classic tale of governmentĬontrolling everything is brought to the big screen in this fascinatingĪdaptation.
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