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This is a very well made movie the acting and atmosphere especially. This film is also very loyal to the book. The thing is it felt like you have had to read the book in order to get much needed context. The book put much much effort in world building as well as Winston's thoughts. In large both are missing here (partially limited by a movies run time I suppose), so many of the scenes greatly lose impact or straight up leave many questions to the viewer who hasn't read the book.

Also, to me at least the missing information made the story feel like it is moving in fast forward. So the pacing felt a bit weird to me.

Personally I enjoyed the film because it put the world and story outside my head. Making me visually look at this twisted world and also experience it from a perspective that's not mine. Which was really interesting.

For these reasons I would recommend all people who read the book watch this movie but definitely not to people who haven't read the book.

It has no plot at all. 90% of the time nothing happens and it has really amazing production. Um... that's it really nothing more nothing less. I didn't not enjoy this movie at all, I got extremely bored because apart from 3ish battle scenes to grab your attention there is nothing there. And I mean nothing! The plot is non existent, the dialogues could be removed and the movie would not change at all and the characters aren't even characters. I mean after spending 2 and a half hours watching this movie I can not describe even one character because there is literally nothing to describe nothing to tell. I do like long non-action packed movies a lot. But other than the first sentence of this review the movie does not have something else to offer. Also I get that this is an "anti-war" movie and now days that just means the movie has to be graphic and boring for some reason. Maybe because real war is that way?!