1984
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O'Brien: If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

O'Brien: Power is not a means, it's an end.

O'Brien: What are your feelings towards Big Brother?
Winston Smith: I hate him.
O'Brien: You must love him. It is not enough to obey him. You must love him.

O'Brien: In our world, there can only be triumph and self-abasement. Everything else, we will destroy.

O'Brien: Power is tearing human minds apart and putting them back together in new shapes of your own choosing.

O'Brien: The Law of Gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens.
Winston Smith: I love you.

Syme: Beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

O'Brien: We shall meet in the place were there is no darkness.

O'Brien: There is no loyalty but loyalty to the Party. There is no love except love of Big Brother. All competing pleasures we will destroy.

Audio problem: When Winston says "Bugger." at the start of the film when he has the cigarette in his mouth, his lips are most definitely not in sync with the word. And it even sounds dubbed over.

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Trivia: In the final scene, when Winston and Julia are playing chess, Winston uses a tactic of going around and hitting from behind. Only minutes later, the news report that Oceanarian forcer defeated Eurasian forces in Africa by using the same tactic. Nothing major but it makes a good point about the rate of citizen monitoring and news manipulation in Oceanaria.

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