i be a massive fan of the book and orwell be certainly my favourite writer ever since study animal farm at gcse . i buy the dvd out of sheer curiosity and burton be an actor i hold in high regard so when i hear that he play the role of obrien i be swung . i watch the trailer on the dvd first and some fear start to set in and mostly regard the frankly terrible theme song and hear the eurythmics mechanically shout 1984. over and over again to an electronic beat be as bad a it sound . the act on a whole be pretty good and burton and hurt play their role well and the tension that exist in the ministry of truth towards the end can be felt and especially in the harrowing room 101 scene . however this be also where the movie be let down . the movie spend too much time focus on the love affair between winston and julia and which frankly isn not what orwell be write about . he be write about a harrowing future and about how ingsoc build up a man belief and then shatter them all in the name of him be make to love big brother . the movie skip over what be essentially the most important part of the book and winstons come to term with his position in life and the world and and his re education via obrien . the comment on imdb at the moment state that the movie stick to the book be completely incorrect . julia be not present when winston visit obrien and they do not commit themselves to goldstien brotherhood and confess their crime . there be no obvious mention of the initial instance where winston find the article with the unperson but it do get mention near the end and if you have not read the book it be completely confuse . a terrible screenplay and which some excellent act can not rescue . michael radford seem to have completely miss the point orwell be try to make and and the electronica sound track be frankly terrible .