Essay | A Review of the Movie and Book "1984"

Michael Radford did an incredible job in the way he directed 1984, it is a movie about a utopia (a perfect world). Radford used cinematic filming techniques to really capture the way he wanted the movie to be seen. It is a dull, lifeless movie that uses allot of panoramic shots, e.g. gray skies, run down building, and there was always a picture of big brothers face, to tell the viewer that the people in the movie are living in a very restricted world. Radford was very particular in the way he used his techniques to potray the movie, he used a technique called juxtapositioning. This is for e.g. when they are chanting and doing the three minutes hate, then suddenly a picture of big brothers face came on and they all went into total bliss, there was also a rhyme, hear comes a light to take you to bed...
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