1984

1. How does the archive footage during the opening moments of the film prepare the audience for the story?
It prepares and keeps us aware that the movie would be about homogenous, propagandas, political crimes and influences and brain washed people. It really had a negative effect on how the movie would be and how unhappy the people were.

2. How does the film present the people who watch this footage?
The film presents the people as people who can’t think for themselves. They have been brain washed into believing the political parties propagandas and like the answer to question 1 everyone is homogenous, very bland, no individuality and boring.

3. Examine the following settings in the film?
Winston’s apartment- Winston’s apartment was a very old room. It looked extremely lonely to be in there and dirty. There was a chair in the corner and in a secret part of his wall was where he kept a diary of his thoughts. His apartment also looked very cold and dull and it seemed as although if he didn’t have much privacy with a tele-screen in the middle of his room watching his every move.

Winston’s office – Winston’s office was extremely crammed and small with a tele-screen of Big Brother once again. There was not much privacy and the office was pretty much the same for everyone and there really isn’t much movement to make in the office.

The cafeteria – The cafeteria was nothing exciting. Just like everything else it was dirty, crammed and extremely busy and rushed as everyone wanted their meals. There really wasn’t much room on the tables for everyone to be able to eat freely and comfortably and once again and probably it was the same throughout the whole movie, it was dull.

How do they contribute to our understanding of the issues presented?
They show us the dullness of their worlds and help us understand their way of life and living how everything truly is. The crammed spaces, the amount of freedom which is close to nothing, their struggles and it shows us and helps our understanding of how lonely they truly are.

4. Describe your perception of Winston so far. What might his physical features signify?
My perception of Winston is that he’s a lonely man and growing old and dying as the day goes by. That they’re really is no meaning or productivity happening in his life and there was no difference between life and death for him. His physical features showed that he was an anorexic man obviously ill of something and that he couldn’t respect his body, physical and mental ways to the greatest that he should’ve or wanted to.

5. Why does Winston describe himself as a dead man in the early moments of the film?
Winston described himself as a dead man because he kept a diary and the fact that he knew how the parties controlled their information and fed lies to the people and the power of the state, he also knew there was something wrong with the world and questioned the concepts of Big Brother and always had thoughts and wrote them down meant that he was committing thought crime and would have been founded out regardless.

6. What is the significance of the Chestnut Tree Café in the film?
The Chestnut Tree Café is previously where Winston saw other men who were having emotional breakdowns and who were extremely broken therefore the Chestnut Tree Café represents the pain and the amount of hurt people has been put in by the government and it shows us how broken people have become, that is the significance.

7. How does the Party perceive children? Consider the children’s song heard during Winston’s train journey before he met Julia: “We are the children / Builders of the future / And we the children swear to thee / Loyal emotion, fearless devotion / And to die with dignity.”
The party perceive the children to brainwash them to become the spies, the snitches, the future of Big Brother’s generation.

8. What does the Golden Country where Winston and Julia secretly meet represent in the film?
It represents their place of freedom where there are tele-screens no crimes and the feeling of hope, freedom and happiness.

9. How does it differ from the earlier settings in the film?
It was a majestic place; you could see how at peace they felt compared to being in a town being revolved around Big Brother. It was bright instead of dull, there was fresh air and although they were by themselves they seemed less lonely than they usually were.

10. What are the definitions of” “loyalty” and “betrayal” in the film? Identify quotes from the film and use them to write a paragraph about these concepts.
Loyalty is when you obey Big Brother, but not just obey him, love him and appreciate all he has down. Betrayal is basically the people’s hatred for Big Brother but real betrayal to Winston is if they are able to make him and Julia stop loving one another, then that would be real betrayal to him.

"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal."
(Chapter 7)

“There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science.”
(Chapter 3)