1984 By George Orwell: Movie Analysis
The film 1984 based on the book by George Orwell, describes a totalitarian and dystopian regime, complete with too many laws and rules, and a government who surveil your every move. The people live in fear and ignorance, but do not know any better. Do we live in a dystopian society today? What is similar with 1984 and what is not? Is there a government in the world that is more similar than others?
To begin with, the trademark of a dystopian society is that the people believe, or the government wants the people to believe, that they live in a utopian society. That is not the situation in the current western society, I think. I, for one, am very much aware of the problems and injustices within our society. Thanks to social media every single …show more content…
We do not get arrested for speaking our minds or merely just thinking what we want, as they do in the film. On the other hand, media feeds us information and influences our way of thinking, and more specifically what we think about. For example mass-media would much rather have us think about e.g. celebrities fighting, than us being aware of the brutal police violence in the US, or what is really happening is Syria. We are manipulated to not think about the more ‘important’ things.
Even if we, in the western world, do not experience much of the world of 1984, there are actual countries today where people live in ignorance and are being controlled by their fear for the leader. The country I am thinking of is North Korea. The first and foremost similarity of the totalitarian regime in 1984 and North Korea is the constant surveillance. People in North Korea actually think that Kim Jong Un, their dictator, can hear their thoughts. They are fed with propaganda every day and live in perpetual fear, and the outside world does not seem to care. We simply watch with a sadist kind of
To begin with, the trademark of a dystopian society is that the people believe, or the government wants the people to believe, that they live in a utopian society. That is not the situation in the current western society, I think. I, for one, am very much aware of the problems and injustices within our society. Thanks to social media every single …show more content…
We do not get arrested for speaking our minds or merely just thinking what we want, as they do in the film. On the other hand, media feeds us information and influences our way of thinking, and more specifically what we think about. For example mass-media would much rather have us think about e.g. celebrities fighting, than us being aware of the brutal police violence in the US, or what is really happening is Syria. We are manipulated to not think about the more ‘important’ things.
Even if we, in the western world, do not experience much of the world of 1984, there are actual countries today where people live in ignorance and are being controlled by their fear for the leader. The country I am thinking of is North Korea. The first and foremost similarity of the totalitarian regime in 1984 and North Korea is the constant surveillance. People in North Korea actually think that Kim Jong Un, their dictator, can hear their thoughts. They are fed with propaganda every day and live in perpetual fear, and the outside world does not seem to care. We simply watch with a sadist kind of