Airstrip One is under the ever-watchful eyes of Big Brother and is run by the totalitarian party INGSOC. Our story begins in London, now known as Airstrip One and the capital of Oceania. The world is divided into three mega-blocks, Oceania, Eurasia and Eastaisa, which are perpetually at war. It imagines a world in which thought is controlled. Michael Radford’s 1984 production, starring John Hurt and Richard Burton in his final role, is mostly faithful to the novel. It’s never a bad time to wake up from a bad dream. The film is essential viewing, just as Orwell’s dystopic novel is essential reading. To protest the Trump administration’s reduced funding for the arts, independent theatres across the US and Canada will screen the movie adaptation of Orwell’s 1949 novel on April 4.īut you need not wait for a bright cold day in April when the clocks are striking 13. When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States of America, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four became a bestseller again.

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