Watching Big Brother: Local Theaters Screen 1984
by
Rachel Elizabeth Jones
Posted on
April 4, 2017 at 2:21PM
Back in Radford's bleak rendition of Oceania, Hurt and his gaunt, pained face weather the bleak lifelessness of repression — and eventually confront the absurdity and violence of inventing truth. Viewers will no doubt draw uncomfortable parallels between our current age of "alternative facts" and "fake news" and Orwell's prescient warning.