George Orwell - A Life in Pictures p

[mahound9]

If Orwell had known what future was awaiting him, he might not have been so sad to leave the world so early.

[rerevisionist]

It's quite funny to read these comments. Orwell was just another 'useful idiot'. The whole Jewish causation of the USSR is missed out. That's why he's prasied - BECAUSE he doesn't in fact say anything very helpful. He describes, but doesn't analyse.

[gregtheapostle]

@rerevisionist read his journalism and investigative autobiographies if you want his opinions stated plainly.

[matchbox555]

well he got it wrong

1984 turned about to be nothing like what he said

instead we got 'relax' by frankie goes to hollywood

[lelevonon]

@matchbox555 earlier in the movie there is a quote of orwells in which he tells, that he doesn't expect the world to become as described in 1984, it is more like a warning. In my opinion he didn't get it wrong one bit!

[davidoffon]

My previous comments about his way of valuing himself ,are born out here, in the car journey, factually based or?

I have read all the modern biography's , but there is only so much I can retain in one life sitting.

[TearAwayPictures]

Why is the actor only using his index fingers to type? Surely George knew how to type correctly!

[RDBoisQc]

more nice quotes in this 1

[postalsock]

I think the man who portrayed Orwell did a fantastic job. He is quite the eccentric!

[FA8T]

Chris Langham.

[keelorenz]

I hope it's an accurate portrayal. I never had him figured for a comedian.

[TheMemberForHiggins]

What a shame he didn't have some sort of speech-recognition device allowing him to liberate those final few books he claimed to have "inside him", while supine.

Even better, imagine his work getting better into old age, finally dying in, say, the 1980s, after serving as a thorn in Thatcher's side, etc.

[FA8T]

Sorry I made a mistake, this is the definitive book against totalatarianism. He was I think the first person, even to this day the rarest person who took a total dislike to totalatarianism; fascism, communism, capitalism and any such kind that may arise now or in the future; It is the overriding of human liberty. Orwell was rare amongst the left for cherishing freedom.

[lollygager3664]

I feel your sentiments. Orwell was a rarely independent minded individual. He sympathized with the European proletariot, but undersootd that the apoligetics of Stalinism. They were never friends of the proletariot and a danger to civil liberal democracy. A great man who died before his time.

[lollygager3664]

In our society there will be noting but loyalty to the Party.,

[FA8T]

I think it is very imprtant to understand that his work was an assualt on all totalatarianism and not just stalinism. It has been very convenient for people in the west over the years to just see it just as an attack on Stalinism but a lot of 1984 was about post-war England the potential for tyrany.

[trollfinger]

I think he may have been the first person that understood how to put in words. I'm sure victims of totalatarianism throughout the previous centuries would have said the same if they had understanding of the systems that were being placed around them.

[diceyLee]

@FA8T the only other person of that time to see the same pattern, i think, was Leon Trotsky....