In my talk yesterday I said this was a species of software developer with a lot of power, a beast of the 80s, extinct this century. He says that there are successful 40-person software companies. The film's basic flaw is that it's just too painful, too depressing, and too slow to watch. Tony Byrne of CMS Watch stopped by to say hello. The performances in the film are excellent, and its look is entirely appropriate and mesmerizing-but only for a while. This is not a future made up of colorful blinking lights and high-tech manufacturing it is a gray, dull, stark, depressing world possessed of little visual stimulation. Drama based on George Orwells classic novel starring John Hurt and Richard Burton. Radford chooses to present a view of the future as it might have looked to Orwell inġ948. Orwell wrote his novel in 1948, and his vision of the future is unrelentingly bleak. High-ranking member of the government, O'Brien (Richard Burton), who has looked upon him as a protege, discovers the rebellion. Winston becomes involved in an illict love affair with Julia (Suzanna Hamilton), a young woman who works in the Ministry of Truth.
The autocratic symbol of a repressive regime that has forbidden such things as freedom of thought and expression-including sex. This is the well-known story of Winston Smith (John Hurt), a citizen of Oceania whose job it is to rewrite history for Big Brother, In this admirable attempt at bringing George Orwell's classic novel to the screen, director Michael Radford is perhaps too faithful to his source material.