Nineteen Eighty-Four story
The film follows the life of Winston Smith, a low-ranking civil servant in a war-torn London ruled by Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. Smith struggles to maintain his sanity and his grip on reality as the regime's overwhelming power and influence persecutes individualism and individual thinking on both a political and personal level.
13 total · 6 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| demonization of the enemy | major | The Oceanian state portrayed people from the enemy state as barbarians that were unworthy of living. |
| forbidden love | major | Winston and Julia carried on romantically in flagrant violation of state orthodoxy. |
| government indoctrination | major | The people of Oceania were subjected to constant indoctrination. Among other things, government propagandists were busy whipping the people up into a frenzy for war with the enemy state of Eurasia and East Asia. |
| mass surveillance | major | Everyone in superstate of Oceania under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police. |
| thoughtcrime society | major | Winston and other were apprehended by the Thought Police for having allegedly committed such crimes. |
| totalitarian dystopia | major | The story took place in a superstate called Oceania, where each person was closely monitored for the state to control their beliefs and opinions. |
| betrayal | minor | Winston and Julia ratted one another out for their thoughtcrimes under torture. |
| coping with being tortured | minor | Winston was put on the rack and tortured mercilessly, and then there were the rats. |
| mind control technology | minor | In general, we saw a society in which the government used sophisticated indoctrination to shape the public mind. In particular, Winston's interrogator made extensive attempts to brain wash him into believing all the conventional state propaganda. |
| mother and son | minor | Winston had flashback to a time in his boyhood when his mother and sister were disappeared never to be seen again. |