![]() ![]() Loyal party member Winston Smith (John Hurt, who passed away last week) is starting to have doubts about the news he's required to obliterate at the Ministry of Truth. It's a parallel universe, where World War II is in its 45th continuous year. It read "2 PLUS 2 = 5."Īvailable on Vudu-for free, if you can stand a barrage of noisy commercials-director Michael Radford's 1984 does an outstanding job of illustrating the book. Supposedly, in Moscow once, there was a neon sign celebrating the year-early completion of a Five-Year Plan. Details of the show trials, the paranoia, and the use of raw alcohol to cope are straight from the Communist regime. The book is a hammer against those who looked the other way at the crimes of England's then-ally, the USSR. He even named his protagonist "Winston" as if to honor Churchill. ![]() Orwell's satire was based on the author's time working for the good guys-at the BBC, where he was a wartime propagandist. Something to do with the new administration and its forward-thinking views on the mutability of facts? I wouldn't want to speculate. George Orwell's dystopian vision seems more prescient with every passing day.įor some reason, George Orwell's 1984 is a current best-seller on Amazon. ![]()
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