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. 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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