1984 · drama · sci-fi · thriller
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Directed by Michael Radford1h 53m1984
Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.
Our read: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · sci-fi · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
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