Nineteen Eighty Four - Tumblr Posts
TRUE! Arts existed long before c*pitalism and can speak of a world beyond it, so they're trying to curtail it. Classic Orwellian tactic.
....are you sure that's n o t big brother watching and scrutinising your every move???
So one of the people on my street works for Sky TV and drives one of their vans. It has hannibal painted on one side which to be honest sets me on edge a little. It parks outside my house regularly as i don’t drive so don’t use that spot.
When i come down for work at 5am i usually open the curtains to see what the weather is like. Some days im open them to see the house across the road. Others i open them to see this particular van outside with Hannibal staring into my living room. Sometimes i forget to close the curtains at night and when i come down for work at 5am i see this.
It is terrifying and you can’t escape it. You either have to live in the dark or live with this staring at you while you try to watch TV.
I go to make a brew and it follows me. I watch TV and its there. I close the curtains and my dog cries because she wants to sit on the windowsill and stare at it.
I mean, is it reasonable to ask Sky to repaint a van because Mads Mikkelsen is staring me down when i try to eat my cornflakes?
I'm currently reading Julia (the 2023 retelling from Julia's perspective) and it's AWESOME
Oh my gODs
Audible's 1984 recording with Andrew Garfield
Holy shit
Holy shit
I'm five minutes in and it's the best adaptation I have heard...??
I feel like I'm in Winston's head... Staring at 1984s world...and listening to his inner thoughts...
Best adaptation I've heard.. screen or novel or graphic novel
It's so good
It's not like the having the book read to you
it's a dramatisation, more like listening to a film without seeing the visuals
We'll see if this lasts but presently
10/10, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
...my only complaint currently, some of the voice actors are American, or sound like faked Brit accents when 1984 is set in Air Strip One, aka, London..
"Urban decacy proves a pervasive motif in 1984" you mean, the make-up brand? damn, I didn't know Winston was a drag queen
Brazil by Terry Gilliam.
A good film, one that I felt was made exclusively for me. I was transformed upon first watching this. Brazil is an amazing masterpiece of a movie. Is it better than Blade Runner? ...Close.
Uncanny vibes, everything about it is freaky, every character in the film feels like they have this sinister agenda underneath this goofy facade, and it has an ending that's horrifyingly hopeless and really upset me upon first viewing. I was like, "Please, that is not the way it ended. Please no..." But I'm SO glad it ended like that, because apparently there was an alternate version where it ended happily. Forget that. It would not be as nearly as impactful if it didn't have that.
I should note that Terry Gilliam does this thing with fisheye lenses where he makes certain things in frame feel all the more close and intrusive to your personal space. The way he distorts the screen...say someone has a screwdriver or a syringe in their hand. It can really just bend around to really feel like it's about to get you. There's just something really intrusive about some of the visuals in this film.
Wdym this isn’t canon
1984 except when the inner party find and read winston’s diary it’s just his own personal collection of self-written o’brien x reader fanfiction
winston smith I love you winston smith
(I just found out there was a movie for this)
