This film is based on George Orwell's novel "1984". It is impossible for the film to completely restore the novel. As far as the film is concerned, there are still many things expressed.
In the film, it is said that sex is corrupt and not allowed by the rulers. Nearly 10,000 women swore not to get married. Through extra-human conception, the totalitarian rulers suppressed human sexual instincts to achieve what they should have for themselves. The control of individual thoughts, sex is an instinctive desire of human beings, why should it be deprived? This is the absurdity of totalitarian rule. The ignorant people listened to the ruler's false ethics and lost their individual judgment.
Etterstein does not exist, it is just a method adopted by the rulers to tempt thinking people, similar to the temptation crime of China's fishing law enforcement. Like the ignorant people who are madly insulting Itterstein at the beginning of the film, this is exactly what the rulers want. They want to completely capture those thinking people and turn them into animals without thinking. Beautiful, philosophical words are directly, Vulgar text alternative. They will pretend to have individual minds like you, and all the people who are out of the collective mind and who are the same as the fabricated Etterstein are closely monitored by the Thought Police, and when you are found, they will continue to torture you. , until in the end your mind is completely brainwashed by them. Lies become truths and then lies again, 2+2 can be equal to 5, it can be 3, it can be all of them, what is truth, people have been confused, and the protagonist who is constantly hypnotized by the thought police finally finally says 2+2 It is equal to 5. At the end of the film, the protagonist did not write down how much 2+2 equals. There is no answer. The ruler says that it exists, and individuals are not allowed to exist. War does not exist, it is just a fictional illusion made by the rulers to make people trust the party more and worship them, and even kill more than 3,000 people to prove the real existence of war, and then keep spreading the news of victory to deceive people. Consolidate their dominance by convincing people that only the existence of the party can keep people safe. In China, people's thoughts are imprisoned, and most of the facts we see are artificially distorted. If someone goes against the powerful Party beyond their own means, it will be an egg-beating stone and a dead end.
The constant reporting by radio and television in movies is that the economy is gradually growing. In fact, most of them are false reports in order to achieve the purpose of stabilizing people’s hearts. Moreover, it can be seen that people under centralized power only focus on material things and completely lose their spiritual self-realization. This is also a centralized ruling group. the ultimate purpose.
The inner party eats pure milk, healthy food, while people eat junk food that looks like meat but tastes like meat, but is not meat, just like the common people in China eat junk food with problems Food, and those superstructures usually eat non-polluting, healthy food, and there is a reason why they live so long, which most Chinese people can't know.
The movie keeps repeating: Under the shady chestnut tree, I betrayed you, and you betrayed me. When Patterson was about to be taken out of prison, he yelled at the police: The person you should arrest should be Smith, he is the one with the thought crime. When the rat was about to rush out of the cage and run towards Smith, he looked at Julia and shouted in horror: Let the rat bite her. Our heads are shrouded in smoke, and everyone lives in masks, even if they are friends, lovers, and relatives, once their own interests are threatened or there are benefits to be gained, people will choose to betray them without thinking. I think those who have witnessed the Cultural Revolution should remember the bloody history of lack of trust and betrayal between people.
There is a scene in the film where the young Smith stole his sister's chocolate, revealing the evil of human nature. In Orwell's other novel about totalitarian rule, at the beginning, the ruler painted us a lot of bright futures, but the last one was not fulfilled, just like the original promise of the Communist Party. Human nature is inherently evil, who can be unmoved in the face of interests? Most people are selfish.
The film does exaggerate in some respects, such as shooting people to prove that war exists. The film itself is not bad, the edges and corners of centralized rule become clearer with the development of the film, and the performances of the characters are also in place.
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