after hear about george orwell prophetic masterpiece for all of my life and i be now 37 and but never have read the book and i be totally confused a to what i have just see . i be very familiar with the concept cover in the novel and a i be sure most be and but only through hearsay and quote . without this limited knowledge this film would have be a complete mystery and and even with it i be still no more educate about the story of 1984 than i be before i watch it . on the plus side . the cinematography be amazing and hurt and burton deliver fine performance and the overall feel of the movie be wonderfully grim and desolate . the prostitute scene be a fantastically dark piece of film making . now for the down side and and there be plenty . there be a war go on and ( at least as far a the propaganda be concern ) and but why and with who . nothing be explain . there be a couple of name bandy about ( eurasia etc ) and but they mean nothing without explanation . who be winston . what do he do . where do he come from . where do he work . why be he change news report . why isn not he on the front line . why doesn not he eat the food in the canteen . what be that drink he drink through the entire film . why be he so weak and ill. why isn not he brainwash like the rest of them . what the deal with his mother and sister . what happen to his father . a little back story would have be nice and no scrub that and essential for those like myself that haven not read the book . without it and this be just a confusing and hard to follow art house movie that constantly keep you guess at what be actually go on . the soundtrack be dis joint and badly edit and the constant chatter from the big brother screen swamp the dialogue in place make it even hard to work out whats go on . i accept that this may have be an artistic choice but it very annoy all the same . also and i know this have be mention before and but why all the nudity . it just seem totally gratuitous and felt like it have be throw in there to make up for the lack of any plot coverage . i personally can not abide the way hollywood feel it have to explain story line word for word these day . we be not all brainwash simpleton and but this be a few step too far the other way . i can only imagine that it totally rely on the fact that you have read the book because if this film really be the literal translation that i have see many people say and i would find it very hard to understand why 1984 be hail a the classic it be . there no denying that it be light year ahead of it time and have pretty much predict every change in our society to date and ( maybe this have be a sort of bible to the power that be . ) and but many sci fi novelist have do the same without leave gap hole in the storyline . i guess i have to do what i should have do from the start and buy a copy of the book if i be to make any sense out of this . all in all and very disappointed in something i have wait for year to watch .