1984 Movie

If you wish to view 1984 the movie yourself, you can simply click here to view it on YouTube
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouUpXMae6Hs◄
          The book 1984 by George Orwell may have presented many good themes and lessons, but the only chapters in the book that i was truly intrigued by were those in part three, where Winston and Julia were finally caught. Profanity was also used in the movie. The had a lot of confusing language, and I often had to reread certain parts to even partly understand its meaning. The novel took a while to actually start, and I often felt like quitting. I also had to use different resources like Spark notes to get the full understanding of certain parts of the novel. I would not recommend this novel to anyone, especially if the person is a child. This is definitely a senior-college level reading book. I am one that really enjoys reading, but this is one book that will not make it to my bookshelf.
           The movie 1984 is rated R, and is not suitable for children by any means. It shows many scenes of the war that was going on at the time in which the book was set in, and it also showed the parts where Winston and Julia were having intercourse. The movie also doesn't show technology in the way i believed it would be. I believed that the technology that was used in the movie would look like the Jetsons so to speak, and different little parts in the movie like how the two minute hate assemblies, I believed that there would be more narration about what Winston was thinking (since that is what the book is centered around) and just the total outlook of the movie was a lot different from what I expected. One thing i do appreciate though is the general dreariness of the movie. It was very dark and colorless. The people looked very depressed and lifeless, which is exactly how they were portrayed in the book.
         Another aspect of the movie is that it added a lot of parts, and it also skipped over alot of parts. The movie went straight to focusing on when Winston began to have thoughts of betraying the party, and then into his admiration of Julia. It didnt even go into detail about how much he hated her, and hoe he dreamed about her before meeting her. The movie also put different scenes before scenes that came far after it. For instance, Winston visited the parsons house befor meeting Julia.
           All in all, the movie was as dreadfull as the way it was portrayed. I feel as if the movie could have been scripted much better, and that the setting of the movie could have been much better. This movie, like the book, doesn't come close to being one of my favorites.
Another book and movie review                                                     http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1000055-1984/◄