1984 on steroids

Rating: 10/10 (11 August 2007)

The reality of Big Brother has never been portrayed with such precision before.
It is a very emotional, and intellectual movie.
As someone who lived in the communist block, I like how much the environment and atmosphere resembles that of those times.
The thing that struck me most is how closely some of the conversations in that movie are to conversations happening now in the US. It must be due to the fact that trading freedoms for fictional benefits is just a unfortunate weakness in our human nature.
The bad parts of the movie are the translation and the subtitles. I understand German but I watched the movie with subtitles anyway and I must say that the translation is pretty bad. Some of the subtitles were too long and flashing too quickly on the screen to read.