This is a difficult novel to adapt. Self-communication occupies the vast majority of the novel, and the most important part, The Book of Goldstein, is even more difficult to express in the language of the lens.
The film simplifies the social background in the novel, and the contrast of cautious, wild, repressed, and eager is clearly seen in the lens. Not to mention an exploration of the dystopian philosophical quintessence of the novel. For example, in the chapter of Julia and Winston's love, the camera read it so rashly, I love you only because you love me, and the complexity of the love in the novel is with anti-social, ego Consciousness, despair, etc. are complicated. The weight of the Book of Goldstein is only lightly brushed by the description of the war in three or four sentences. Something as complex as interrogation and human nature is simply presented as fear of fear.
As for the overall style of the time, it's so tepid, I think it's very inappropriate for this very personal film. Even, the guidance of the lens here, the coercion of the director may make this film better, after all, his style must have strong personal subjective color, and passionate language, seeing David Fincher want to direct this film The work is not bad in my hunch.
What I can read in this 1984 novel has my limitations at this age. This is a novel that has inspired me a lot. I don't know anything about dystopian literature, I don't know what a "left" political point of view is, but this is a book that can both enlighten and destroy human beings.
What does 1984 refer to? What does room 101 refer to? what is it? What is fake? What is existence? What is memory? What is society? Between me, me and others, between me and society, between thought and thought, in short, in all places where there is a contradiction, it shows us the inexorability of this confrontation of breakthrough and anti-break, shackles and anti-shackles, freedom and anti-freedom. significance. This reminds me of "Lao Tzu" and Sartre. Namely nihilism and existentialism.
In short, the original work of 1984 analyzed society and human nature. It was profound. It could only be written in words. It could only be transformed into imagination with the guidance of such words in a quiet period of time. I don't think there is anyone who can really direct him very well.
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