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Originally Posted by Frownland
Guy's a great actor, especially in Virginia Woolf, and I love 1984 the novel, but that is a film that I never really dug. I'm not sure what it was about it, but whenever I watch it I just don't find it entertaining. Maybe I have a problem with the pacing or something, because it took me four tries to even finish it.
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Well yeah, it's not really meant to be entertaining. It's dark, depressing, unremittingly bleak and it has no happy ending. What more could you want in a picture? But I think it's more the way it portrays the novel, and of course the two towering leads, that really make it. I love it when Smith's mate says his daughter turned him in as an agent of Goldstein; he didn't even know he was one. They're so insidious. He's so proud of her. Incredible moment.
Did you read my review of it in "The Couch Potato" by chance?