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...hand motions with music in what must be an appalling effort; but the significance and meaning of the gestures get lost. He flutters, jiggles, shakes, undulates and climbs--but why? His face conveys amazement, wonder, triumph, haughtiness in a way that is amusing but confusing. During these skits, a viewer's mind can't help but stray to the question of how much Marceau must pay his doubtlessly-busy masseur...
...station took in an additional $1000 of donations each week the games were broadeast directly; and the stations all hope that the games generated untold good will among the people on whom public broadcasting depends the fairly well off folks who respond generously to the financial needs of the viewer supported public stations...
...almost universally read, overanalyzed, modern WORA. Like an old friend, the film assumes both your familiarity and your desire to relive the force of some old memories. Radford leaves out the technical explanations of the Oceanic regime (as set forth in Immanuel Goldstein's didactic book) and lets the viewer fill in the holes...
...book lacked. Winston runs--not slogs--from low-level Party member to fledgling revolutionary to haggard forture victim. The scenery, too, especially the crowd shots of Hate Week and mass gatherings at the execution of war criminals, helps fuel the romantic pace of the film and sweeps the viewer along with Winston...
...alone and scrawls "2 plus 2 equals" in the dust of a café tabletop. The purpose of this open-ended conclusion is a mystyery only God and Bergman, but certainly not Radford, can solve. Not only does it break the emotional tone of the film and make the viewer think, but it leaves the viewer with half-developed food for thought. A far more appropriate ending would have been Orwell's final gunshot, the final chord in a symphony of destruction and despair, which would have kept alive the pathos that otherwise invigortates the film...