Yes, the message is not just important, but pertinent more than ever now in 2024.
To me, the best part of the movie is the prologue which has the script, "first they fascinate the fools, then muzzle the intelligent." (if that quote is not exact, it's close.). Wow is that spot on!!
I've known about this movie, but didn't bother to watch it all these last 40 years. Until tonight. I'm 70 years old, and was a leader for a (PAC) political action committee within a large corporation for decades, so I'm up to snuff on what's happening here in our country. So when I say the relevance of the subject matter is right on target, you can imagine I was looking forward to a pretty good movie.
One word comes to mind again and again: "DRAB".
And I don't mean depressing as it should be based on the tyranny involved here. I mean drab as in it'll put you to sleep. It's so very slow for too long.
I'm sorry to pick on the director, but the movie is lifeless in so many ways, And not on purpose.
Kudos to the actors for doing everything they could with fairly innocuous writing, and poor direction.
Direction isn't everything, but often, it's pretty darn close. And every scene in this movie is drab rather than imposing or suspenseful. Even the suspenseful parts seem mostly inconsequential by virtue of the direction.
Yes, the pace finally picks up about the 1:12 mark. Then in comes to a grinding halt again and again.
To its credit, it does demonstrate mass surveillance, repression, and overall, the attributes of the Totalitarian State that drives same. With such great material from the book, you'd expect a pretty engrossing movie, but such is not the case. This movie is like taking two Valium (even though I've not had one in 50 years.)
I'm happy for those of you that enjoyed the film. I did not however.
Thx
Bob.
To me, the best part of the movie is the prologue which has the script, "first they fascinate the fools, then muzzle the intelligent." (if that quote is not exact, it's close.). Wow is that spot on!!
I've known about this movie, but didn't bother to watch it all these last 40 years. Until tonight. I'm 70 years old, and was a leader for a (PAC) political action committee within a large corporation for decades, so I'm up to snuff on what's happening here in our country. So when I say the relevance of the subject matter is right on target, you can imagine I was looking forward to a pretty good movie.
One word comes to mind again and again: "DRAB".
And I don't mean depressing as it should be based on the tyranny involved here. I mean drab as in it'll put you to sleep. It's so very slow for too long.
I'm sorry to pick on the director, but the movie is lifeless in so many ways, And not on purpose.
Kudos to the actors for doing everything they could with fairly innocuous writing, and poor direction.
Direction isn't everything, but often, it's pretty darn close. And every scene in this movie is drab rather than imposing or suspenseful. Even the suspenseful parts seem mostly inconsequential by virtue of the direction.
Yes, the pace finally picks up about the 1:12 mark. Then in comes to a grinding halt again and again.
To its credit, it does demonstrate mass surveillance, repression, and overall, the attributes of the Totalitarian State that drives same. With such great material from the book, you'd expect a pretty engrossing movie, but such is not the case. This movie is like taking two Valium (even though I've not had one in 50 years.)
I'm happy for those of you that enjoyed the film. I did not however.
Thx
Bob.