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1984 Big Brother

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Big Brother Is Watching
In George Orwell 's classic dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, the world is in a state of unending war between three superstates, and the story is set in one of them, a totalitarian society built on ubiquitous mass surveillance, official deceit, manipulation of documented history, abolition of independent thinking and persecution of individualism.
And while the year 1984 has passed us by and while we are not completely there, yet; looking at the current state of world affairs, Orwell might have just been off by about half a century. In fact the Orwellian concept of Big Brother (is watching you) is already true, whether we know / believe / accept or not.
For years fringe-stream and conspiracy theorists kept alluding …show more content…

The entire event is brilliantly depicted in the highly acclaimed and award winning, “All the President 's Men” (1976) by Alan J. Pakula, based on a non-fiction book by the same name by the two journalists who investigated the scandal for The Washington Post.
Another film that was incorrectly assumed to be based on the above scandal, as it was released shortly afterwards, was “The Conversation” (1974), which was written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The story is about a surveillance expert who refuses to hand over the tapes of a recording as he is worried it might lead to the murder of the couple under their watch. The movie won the Palme d 'Or at Cannes and was nominated for three Academy Awards. In 1995, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Surprisingly there are very few versions of 1984, including one made by Michael Radford in 1984 to coincide with the year; and “Brazil” (1985), a dark comedy by Terry Gilliam, about a dystopian world dependent on badly managed, arbitrary machines, where a bureaucrat is sent to cover up an error and ends up being the

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