the book be fantastic and this film be not . there be no reason this film could not have embrace a futuristic technological vision of the book . hell and total recall be release a few year later and that do a good job of it and even a clockwork orange release in the 70 do a good job of try to make a futuristic world . the bleak german expressionistic colour and the black and white footage from the vision screen and there be no reason for this approach for when the film be make in 1984. the main character be in a white collar write job yet he dress like he work with oil and grease in a garage . this film decide to take a mock communistic approach to set design and atmosphere and theme and yet the novel do not necessarily dictate a communist and worship the humble worker theme itself . this book seriously need to be adapt in a modern context a this book be more relevant today than ever before . i could not watch more than 20 minute of this crap . the soundtrack be annoy and the lack of foresight be annoy and this film seem to have be make to deny a sense of realism or believability when that be exactly what be require to hammer the novel message to the viewer .