The film's 7.7 rating is well below the 8.8 for V for Vendetta, which lacks such a good theme; it would have been even lower if the film had been an original screenplay, rather than an adaptation of the classic. "1984" is a work with a little bit of stream of consciousness, and a lot of pen and ink are devoted to the psychological description and thinking of the protagonist. It was not written as an encyclopedic work on Oceania in detail. Instead, it focuses on the ideological activities of "the last man in Europe". why? "Because the outside doesn't matter, the thought matters." "1984" makes people shudder not because it's grotesque and cruel, but because it's "implementable." The three volumes of the book can be regarded as three "class hours" to address this issue: The first volume can be summed up as "the society and thinking observed by a peripheral party member" or "problems from appearances". We were able to see the outermost means of domination of the Oceania state apparatus: the telescreen, the secret police, the joint system, Newspeak, etc. The second volume is "Problems of Analysis", which analyzes the world as Winston sees it (through Gostein's book), which, according to Winston himself, "this book It was something he already knew, only more systematic." The book presents a systematic introduction to how Oceania can be ruled, and gives a hopeful conclusion that "Oceania can be overthrown" No. The three volumes completely shattered the previous illusion: Oceania has long thought of the problem mentioned above, and it has to go a step further in this technology to completely extinguish the fire of resistance.
Therefore, "1984" itself is a highly rigorous whole, and the protagonist Winston is like a scholar who reads papers, reading the sociological paper of Oceania for readers chapter by chapter. This also makes the adaptation of the original work very difficult. On the one hand, any part of the content will distort the core idea of the original work; Presented in film and language.
However, this cannot be used as a reason for the film's performance so bad, because the film has almost chosen the worst possible way to adapt it, that is-running account-style narration and reproduction of all plots and scenes in the original order, with The low-light environment acquires a sense of oppression (and the lack of covering up the scenery), making the whole film like a series of sketches with embarrassing jokes. It can be said that the director either did not understand, or deliberately ignored the ideological core and social background of Orwell's original work, so that in the original work, O'Brien, who was supposed to be the incarnation of the big brother and the party, looked like a black policeman who abused his power. Joker, "We'll meet where there's no darkness" sounds like a joke.
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