Ignorance is Strength, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery. These are the founding principles in the political theory of Oligarchical Collectivism, a perfect society sustained by war in which the people create so that the Upper Class can destroy. This raw and melancholy depiction of Orwell's vision of the future is as grim as it is possible. Everyone is cured sooner or later, and eventually we will all be one unit as our society is slowly mechanized and unified. A society where even feelings as strong as love and principles as formidably concrete as mathematics can be eradicated and bent to the will of the Party. I feel that if you are going to watch this movie you should first read the book. The book was written to warn us of the future that to Orwell seemed inevitable. Every time I read this book and even as I watched the movie, I nearly doubled over and cried at the very possibility that this existence might become a reality and that my own history may be rewritten and made untruth.
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