They are soon found out, and Winston is interrogated and tortured by his former friend O’Brien (Richard Burton in his final film appearance). He meets Julia (Suzanna Hamilton), who works for the Ministry of Truth, and they engage in a stoic love affair. He silently suffers and tries to comprehend his oppression, which forbids individual human behaviors such as free thinking and sex. While his co-worker Parsons (Gregor Fisher) seems content to follow the state’s laws, Winston starts to write in a secret diary despite the fact the Big Brother is watching everyone at all times by way of monitors. Winston Smith (John Hurt) is a government bureaucrat whose job is rewriting history and erasing people from existence. The film is set during April of 1984 in post-atomic war London, the capital city of the repressive totalitarian state of Oceania. This stunning screen adaptation of George Orwell’s prophetic 1984 novel envisions a world in which the government completely controls the masses by controlling their thoughts, altering history and even changing the meaning of words to suit its needs. (Why April 4? It’s the day Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith begins rebelling against his oppressive government by keeping a forbidden diary.) Join us for a special screening of the classic film version of George Orwell’s chillingly prophetic novel, 1984, starring John Hurt and Richard Burton. that will be screening 1984 on April 4 2017.
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