Amazing casting, terrific musical score, and mind-blowing sets, cinematography, and direction, '1984' is surely a unique treasure, and one that still retains the same timeless messages even decades since its release. Indeed, it’s surely the most famous dystopian novel in the world, even if its ideas are known by far more people than have actually read it. One can't give such a statement about films these days. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, completed in 1948 and published a year later, is a classic example of dystopian fiction. In other words, this film was FAITHFUL, in every sense of the word, to its source material. Easily, its most impressive aspect was its phenomenal accuracy, attention to detail, etc.

'1984' is probably one of the most, if not THE most, masterful transitions from book to movie I have ever seen.

As Nineteen Eighty-Four was written when Orwell was already suffering from tuberculosis, the disease that killed him, it has often. A picture based on such complex, prophetic, and well-known material could have turned out to be a complete disaster (which it certainly had potential for, judging from the horrendous-looking DVD cover) thankfully, however, I was not disappointed. To describe writing as Orwellian means that it expresses a pessimistic view of a dull, uniform world where every aspect of life is controlled and organized by the State. This, to me, is a prime example of perfect, and unbelievably well-timed, brilliance. The novel is set in Airstrip One, formerly Great Britain, a province of the superstate Oceania, whose residents are victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. Merely a few days after finishing my read of George Orwell's fantastic 1948 novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', I was immediately keen on looking to rent the modern film version, '1984' - filmed, appropriately enough, not only during the actual YEAR of 1984, but also during the exact same short span of months that the story took place in. Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell.

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