The first time I came into contact with "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was in the third year of junior high school. At that time, the book was popular among the boys in the class. One of my buddies cut off my head every day. In the end, I was so troubled that I opened it and read it with a little understanding. But he trembled, and his back was cold. George Orwell's name came to my mind right now, along with the words "War is peace, liberty is slavery, ignorance is power".
Later, I reviewed the original book in high school and gained more understanding, but I haven't read this book for several years. The selection of the new version of the film this time has the meaning of comparing the original, and I am also curious about what kind of experience it will be to visualize this political novel.
In contrast, the film continues the depressing atmosphere of Orwell's original book, using dark tones, the voiceover is slow and low, and the tone of the whole film is like a dying old man. And the interspersed editing of illusion and reality, past and present is slightly uncomfortable, a bit like BBC's "No Survival". But as far as I'm concerned, the director's treatment is not appropriate. The overly gloomy and slow visual and auditory experience downplays the dystopian horror and horror the original should have. In my eyes, the proper colors of the film and television of authoritarian politics should be black and white coexisting, and Winston, as the "last human", should have a progressive sense from contrasting to being completely swallowed with the larger environment. And this version of the rhythm is not very successful.
In terms of the lines, there are some parts that feel too conformed to the original, and the long lines of the monologue and the obscurity of the dialogue are not suitable for direct application to the film. You can stop and think when you are reading, and you can ponder over and over again if you don’t understand, but you shouldn’t always pause when watching a movie. The original party may be fine. If you are exposed to this story for the first time, it may be easy to feel obscure and difficult to understand. If the lines of the movie rely too much on the literary expression of the original work, how can the charm of the visual impact be reflected? And strangely, "Big Brother is watching you" and "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is power" are not fully present in the lines.
In terms of plot, the movie strengthens the rendering of childhood filters and love elements, and the political narrative is dismantled in the plot. As a movie, the structure is reasonable. But the ending feels unclear. If you hadn't read the original book, it might be difficult to intuitively feel Winston's betrayal of Julia. So if you want to fully experience the core of the story, you still have to read the original book.
There is a sentence in the movie "The Great Protector": Why is the sun so red, yet so cold? Freedom and pain seem so contradictory, but in reality they are interdependent. Frogs in warm water have no intention of saving themselves, and a fool who sits and watches the sky does not realize how big the sky is above his head. The demise of the spirit is never known. The most terrifying thing is not to suffer and pretend to live, but to be happy because of not being free; it is not totalitarianism and the system, but the eradication of "hope" in the dictionary, and it is to surrender and die happily.
If the individual loses its meaning and the collective becomes immortal, the whole world becomes a huge, clumsy, soulless machine. This machine is full of monsters that calculate 2+2=5, but it seems normal because everyone is weird. In that world, freedom does not need to exist, human nature does not need to be proved, thinking does not need to think, only the life of power is crazy and vigorous; just be a naive animal day after day, it is free and lucky. That was the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
In "Six Lectures on Solitude", it is said that people can't think, and the prosperity and strength of society are all fake and will be destroyed in one fell swoop.
Russell said that polymorphism is the origin of the world.
Chen Yinke said that if the mind is not free, it is better to die.
"Nineteen Eighty-Four" book review said that one more person who reads George Orwell will have one more guarantee of freedom.
The most vulnerable is love, and the most vulnerable is thought. Either be liberated, choose to die, or wait to be transformed. Either way, we will meet where there is no darkness. This is probably the meaning of the famous sentence that runs through "Nineteen Eighty-Four". The difference is that it may be a person, a corpse, or an animal. When Winston cried out "Bite her, don't bite me", he finally completed the complete betrayal of Julia perfectly. The apparent object of Winston's betrayal is betrayal of love, but in fact he betrayed himself, and Winston has undoubtedly become the last hypothesis.
In the end, Winston and Julia meet again. We will see you in a place without darkness, he said. But when he willingly said, "I love Big Brother," the bell of death had long rung. Can they see each other again? In other words, when they met in a place where there was no darkness at all, they could no longer recognize each other and themselves.
Because where darkness is not allowed, the light is nothing but a terrifying paleness.
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