This is an imaginative , glamorous , chaotic fantasy competently made by Terry Gilliam . Set in a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is controlling people tries to rebel by falling in love . This is very loosely adaptation of classic dystopian novel 1984 , George Orwell's terrifying vision comes to life, providing a peculiar retelling . Exciting rendition that picks up some motes of bleak despair George Orwell's novel along with a lot of hilarious moments . In a futuristic, state-run society controlled by a kind of "Big Brother" and whose people breaking the rules are detained , tortured and brainwashed for their crimes , there a bureaucrat called Sam (Jonathan Pryce) in this dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman named Jill Layton (Kim Greist) of his dreams and while a creative , shrewd plumber (Robert De Niro) appearing here and there . Sam's infatuation with Jill and his determination to save her leads him down nightmare corridors from which there's no getaways . It's only a state of mind. We're all in it together. It's about flights of fantasy. And the nightmare of reality. Terrorist bombings. And late night shopping. True Love. Have a laugh at the horror of things to come. Together they look to help bring down the party . Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past !. Suspicion breeds confidence !.
Dystopian and ironical story which contains a polemic denounce to totalitarianism . It is a workmanlike and sui-generis rendition of notorious novel that captures the desolation and misery found within those pages , though several liberties have been taken with the script . Marvelous special effects are visually stunning and magnificently realized with no computer generator. However, the net result too is more an amusement than the Orwell story , if only because the terror is leavened with streaks of surrealism humor and fantastic scenes . The film was made and released about thirty-five years after its source novel of the same name by George Orwell had been first published in 1948 . This is one of a number of dystopian , Orwellian and Kafaesque films made during the early to mid 1980s , the pictures include Michael Radford's 1984 , Ridley Scott's Blade Runner , Pink Floyd's The Wall , Season of the Witch , Giorgio Moroder version of Fritz Lang's Metrópolis and Terry Gilliam's Brazil . Main and support cast are frankly well . Very good acting by Jonathan Pryce as the tragic as well as comical figure who dares to fall in love within a totalitarian society while has his moments of thriumph on the way of inevitable doom and Kim Greist , she was perfectly cast as Jill Layton , her uncommonly bold , bravery as well as affecting performance , earned her some notoriety and a bit of a minor cult . And , of course , a large number of credited, prestigious secondaries giving attractive performances , such as : Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond , Ian Holm , Bob Hoskins , Michael Palin , Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Jim Broadbent, Barbara Hicks, Charles McKeown, Derrick O'Connor, among others. Impressive as well as brilliant production design has been rendered with meticulous attention to period detail , as well as colorful cinematography by Roger Pratt . The movie achieved box office enough , following over the years as the film's reputation has steadily grown. The motion picture was imaginatively directed by Terry Gilliam , an expert on wonderful , surreal atmospheres (Time bandits , The Adventures of Baron Munchausen , Fisher King , Doctor Parnasus). The film might be described as an extraordinary fantasy full of imagination and color . Rating : Good , better than average . Worthwhile watching .
Other adaptations about this classic magnum opus novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" -whose title Orwell chose the title by inverting the last two digits of the year he completed the manuscript (1948)- are the following ones : Michael Radford's film¨1984¨ (1984) with Richard Burton , John Hurt ; ¨1984¨ (1956) by Michael Anderson with Edmond O'Brien as Winston Smith , Michael Redgrave as O'Connor , Jan Sterling , Mervyn Johns and Donald Pleasence . And for TV ¨1984¨(1954) by by Rudolph Cartier with Peter Cushing , André Morell , Yvonne Mitchell and Donald Pleasence . Furthermore, an American version , Studio one . ¨1984¨ , (1953) with Eddie Albert and Lorne Greene.
Dystopian and ironical story which contains a polemic denounce to totalitarianism . It is a workmanlike and sui-generis rendition of notorious novel that captures the desolation and misery found within those pages , though several liberties have been taken with the script . Marvelous special effects are visually stunning and magnificently realized with no computer generator. However, the net result too is more an amusement than the Orwell story , if only because the terror is leavened with streaks of surrealism humor and fantastic scenes . The film was made and released about thirty-five years after its source novel of the same name by George Orwell had been first published in 1948 . This is one of a number of dystopian , Orwellian and Kafaesque films made during the early to mid 1980s , the pictures include Michael Radford's 1984 , Ridley Scott's Blade Runner , Pink Floyd's The Wall , Season of the Witch , Giorgio Moroder version of Fritz Lang's Metrópolis and Terry Gilliam's Brazil . Main and support cast are frankly well . Very good acting by Jonathan Pryce as the tragic as well as comical figure who dares to fall in love within a totalitarian society while has his moments of thriumph on the way of inevitable doom and Kim Greist , she was perfectly cast as Jill Layton , her uncommonly bold , bravery as well as affecting performance , earned her some notoriety and a bit of a minor cult . And , of course , a large number of credited, prestigious secondaries giving attractive performances , such as : Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond , Ian Holm , Bob Hoskins , Michael Palin , Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Jim Broadbent, Barbara Hicks, Charles McKeown, Derrick O'Connor, among others. Impressive as well as brilliant production design has been rendered with meticulous attention to period detail , as well as colorful cinematography by Roger Pratt . The movie achieved box office enough , following over the years as the film's reputation has steadily grown. The motion picture was imaginatively directed by Terry Gilliam , an expert on wonderful , surreal atmospheres (Time bandits , The Adventures of Baron Munchausen , Fisher King , Doctor Parnasus). The film might be described as an extraordinary fantasy full of imagination and color . Rating : Good , better than average . Worthwhile watching .
Other adaptations about this classic magnum opus novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" -whose title Orwell chose the title by inverting the last two digits of the year he completed the manuscript (1948)- are the following ones : Michael Radford's film¨1984¨ (1984) with Richard Burton , John Hurt ; ¨1984¨ (1956) by Michael Anderson with Edmond O'Brien as Winston Smith , Michael Redgrave as O'Connor , Jan Sterling , Mervyn Johns and Donald Pleasence . And for TV ¨1984¨(1954) by by Rudolph Cartier with Peter Cushing , André Morell , Yvonne Mitchell and Donald Pleasence . Furthermore, an American version , Studio one . ¨1984¨ , (1953) with Eddie Albert and Lorne Greene.