1984

1984

Action / Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller

78
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 71% · 32 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 71% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 87041 87K

based on novel or book dystopia fascism totalitarian regime anarchist brainwashing

Plot summary

Imagine a world where absolute conformity rules, and word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. It's the year 1984 and such a world exists. Divided into three vast states, whose inhabitants are dominated by all powerful governments, an illegal love affair begins. Soon, worker drone Winston becomes the target of a brain-washing campaign to force him back to conformity.

Director

Michael Radford Photo
Michael Radford

Top cast

Shirley Stelfox Photo
Shirley Stelfox as The Whore
Gregor Fisher Photo
Gregor Fisher as Parsons
John Hughes Photo
John Hughes as Man in White Coat
Rolf Saxon Photo
Rolf Saxon as Patrolman
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
813.65 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 12
1.65 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 90

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by aggelos-76652 7 / 10

A well made tip of the hat to those who read the book

This is a very well made movie the acting and atmosphere especially. This film is also very loyal to the book. The thing is it felt like you have had to read the book in order to get much needed context. The book put much much effort in world building as well as Winston's thoughts. In large both are missing here (partially limited by a movies run time I suppose), so many of the scenes greatly lose impact or straight up leave many questions to the viewer who hasn't read the book.Also, to me at least the missing information made the story feel like it is moving in fast forward. So the pacing felt a bit weird to me.Personally I enjoyed the film because it put the world and story outside my head. Making me visually look at this twisted world and also experience it from a perspective that's not mine. Which was really interesting.For these reasons I would recommend all people who read the book watch this movie but definitely not to people who haven't read the book.
Reviewed by Xstal 7 / 10

A Forecast of the Past, Present & Future...

Winston Smith is bound inside a cage, he's upset all of the folks that pay his wage, by not dancing to the tune, of the Oceania goon, and ignoring all his righteous propaganda. To begin with, he's not thinking as he should, his maths is very poor, and that's not good, plus he's finding lots of time, to commit a sexual crime, by taking his young love into the woods. But Big Brother has a way that he can smother, and O'Brien is a rather vengeful mother, observation sets the trap, then you're caught like a starved rat, and there's nowhere you can run, or look for cover. Just imagine if your world was always seen, there were cameras to report where you had been, a device always recording, what you say, knows what you're hoarding, you spend your time with it just looking at its screen.God forbid!
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