It's 1984 and the world is divided into 3 totalitarian competing superstates. Winston Smith (John Hurt) lives in a crumbling London in Oceania. He is a simple party worker in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth. His job is to alter and sanitize records of the past. Everybody is under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police. Winston keeps a diary and encounters undeniable proof of official lies. He is in essence a thought-criminal. He begins an illicit affair with Julia (Suzanna Hamilton) who on the surface belongs to the fanatical Anti-Sex League. Then he meets a member of the Inner Party O'Brien (Richard Burton) who might be part of the resistance.This movie presents a good representation of the bleak Orwellian dystopia. John Hurt is rather lifeless as Winston which is what the character is suppose to be. However I wanted more for the movie. It is a little too bleak. The movie needs to hold out the promise of humanity and then snatch it away. It never truly holds out hope for something better. A better use of the dystopian world is the 1985 movie Brazil. This is a little too monotone although it is a good visual look. Even the torture is a little too slow. I love the rats but there is too much explaining. The excessive dialog drowns out the truly compelling parts of the torture. This is interesting but not that exciting.
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