1. This is a philosophical movie, but it is classified in science fiction. Maybe philosophy = thought science fiction.
2. 1984 is just the year of birth for me. At that time, I didn't know that a writer named George Orwell used it to name a novel 35 years before I was born. Orwell did not know that 35 years after the publication of his novel, the year of the title, a film adapted from his novel was put on the screen, which was also 7 months after my birth. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (English: Nineteen Eighty-Four) is a novel published in 1949 by the British left-wing writer George Orwell. In this work, Orwell portrays a totalitarian society. Through a detailed description of the life of an ordinary person in this society, he reveals that totalitarianism in any form will inevitably lead to tragedies for the people and even the entire country. This novel and "Brave New World" written by British writer Huxley, and "We" written by Russian writer Zamiatin are also called three masterpieces of dystopia. In December 2013, Snowden, the exposer of the "Prism Gate", delivered a Christmas speech, using "1984" to call for the end of government surveillance.
3. At the beginning of the film, it is as if returning to a communist country during the Cultural Revolution. All kinds of victories and growth are shown on TV from time to time. It is very good. People are excited about the 25 grams of chocolate growth every week, worship the party infinitely, hate the traitors announced by the party, like Hitler's symbolic gestures, everything is so familiar. .
4. "War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is power." It is deafening, ideological crime, sexual intercourse is forbidden, and women gradually accept artificial insemination, collective labor, working class... the privileges of internal party members and the plight of the poor class are presented one by one.
5. Lies become truth, and then from truth to lie. "According to the principle of ideological contradictions, even if the war is not real, it does not matter, or even if the war is real, that kind of victory is impossible. Wars are not won or lost, they will only continue. The best part of modern warfare It is the destruction of the fruits of human labor. A hierarchical society can only be built on poverty and ignorance. According to conventional wisdom, the purpose of war is to keep society on the verge of hunger, and war is to serve the ruling group to achieve its purpose. Its purpose is not to win the war against Eurasia or East Asia, but to protect the complete structure of society."
6. "Ideological crime does not bring death; Ideological crime itself is death." Surveillance and propaganda, brainwashing, thinking police all the time. "The rulers of the past dynasties wanted their people to accept an unrealistic view of the objective world." The crime of thinking is the most serious crime. Orwell may not know that as early as 2500 years ago in China during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the Chinese were in charge of the crime. This is called "belly defamation".
7. "Whoever controls the past controls the future, and who controls the present controls the past."
Big Brother's methods are very high. He not only destroys the body, but also corrupts his reputation. This is an old routine. Big Brother's approach is the most brilliant:
"The Thought Police" O'Brien said to Winston: "You must first understand that there is no problem of martyrs in this place. You must have read about religious persecutions in previous history. In the Middle Ages, religions took place. Persecution. That was a failure. Its purpose was only to eradicate heresy, but it consolidated the heresy. It produces thousands of heretics every time it burns to death. Why? Because religious persecution publicly kills the enemy, Kill these enemies before they repent. They killed them because they refused to repent. They were killed because they refused to give up their true faith. In this way, all the glory naturally belongs to the martyrs, All shame is naturally attributed to their persecutors who burned them to death. Later, in the 20th century, totalitarians appeared, as they were called. They were German Nazis and Russian Communists. Russians persecuted heretics more than religion. The persecution is still cruel. They think they have learned a lesson from their past mistakes; but they understand one thing that they must never create martyrs. They deliberately undermine their personal dignity before the victims are tried in public. They tortured and used torture. In solitary confinement, they tortured them into poor creatures prostrated, willing to confess any crime, insult themselves, attack others to conceal themselves. But after a few years, this happened again. The dead became martyrs. Martyrs, their shameful fate has been forgotten. Ask again why is this? First of all, because their confessions were clearly forced and false. We no longer make such mistakes. All confessions here are true. We think The way to make these confessions is true. And, especially, we don’t let the deceased rise up against us. Don’t think that future generations will give you a grievance. Future generations will never know that there is a person like you. You are in the long river of history. Disappeared completely. We are going to turn you into gas and disappear into space. You have nothing left: your name is not in the register, and there is no memory of you in the minds of living people. Regardless of the past and the future , You have been wiped out. You never existed."
8. "Big Brother is watching you!"
"The so-called freedom is the freedom that two plus two equals four."
In the country described in the movie, everyone is under the leadership of the party, and the will of the top leader of the party and the country, "Big Brother" is the will of the party, so it can be said that everyone is under the control of the big brother. Big Brother is omnipotent, always great, glorious and correct. Portraits of Big Brother are all over the city. All results are inspired by the direct leadership or brief introduction of the wisdom of Big Brother. People shouted slogans or used the same gestures to show respect to the big brother. The people of the mainland have worn the leader's badge more than once, and the people of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe should be familiar with the leader statue. The director put the actors in a uniform blue costume, which should be an allusion to the Soviet Union. I don't know if the Chinese audience will feel more cordial if they put on green clothes. Those short and powerful unification gestures appeared in fascist countries, in the Soviet Union, in the Warsaw Pact countries in Eastern Europe, in Vietnam and North Korea, and in documentaries of the Cultural Revolution, remember? But the big brother in the film hasn't been omniscient, otherwise there would be no need for whistleblowers. The American Prism plan is to do what Big Brother failed to do in the first place-without the whistleblower's omniscience.
9. "There is no loyalty here except to the party, and there is no love here except to the big brother. We must destroy all the relative feelings." In the film, Big Brother prohibits sexual intercourse and allows women to gradually accept artificial insemination, because sex and love make it easy for people to forget the party’s teachings, affect loyalty to Big Brother and the party, and reduce work enthusiasm and physical strength. Women began to swear to ban sex, both men and women seem to have infinite energy to work, war, criticize, or express their infinite gratitude and admiration to the big brother after they seem to have forbidden sex. Big Brother must also admire his wisdom and appeal. But the big brother did not expect that he forgot to prohibit "masturbation" and any sexual pleasure. Both men and women can achieve pleasure through these two methods alone instead of each other, and find the real existence of human nature in the pleasure, at least temporarily forgetting the teachings of the big brother at the moment of climax. Big Brother is not omniscient, otherwise he would not need informers. If Winston had not been reported by the younger daughter, the older brother might not have known. In high school, I read "Golden Age", "Silver Age" and "Bronze Age" by Mr. Wang Xiaobo. At that time, I thought his books were very pornographic and violent. Now it seems that sex is an effective means to awaken human instincts. Teacher Wang is high!
"If there is hope, he is on the masses"
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