Of lazy sundays and German movies!

I saw more movies today. Started with "The best man" - nice cute little romantic flick, brought a smile to my face in the morning(or was it afternoon, phew...can't even remember).

I finally found X-men 3 in English - cam print though! Still liked it. Surely is better than the other X-men movies...just like the matrix. It ends with a big war in the end.

But the best was 1984. Yes, George Orwell'S classic novel was made into a movie a long time ago. I didn't know that, but I ahve always wanted to see that novel translated on the celluloid film. I remember that Equilibrium(or is it Constantine), the Keano Reeves movie, is based on 1984. But having to see one of my favourite books word to word on the big screen is a great experience.

Yes, the movie is ane xact copy of the book. Its a 1956 movie, made in the middle of the cold war(the book was written in 1949), and I can only imagine the impact the book and the movie must ve had on the american prejudice against Communism. I didnt exactly see it but just browsed through it in 20 minutes...stopping to watch interesting scenes only.

I made an interesting observation in the movie. The sex scenes. One doesn't expect to see naked women in a 1956 movie. But this is different. The movie is about choice, about rebellion, about blindly believing the government. And what could be more rebellious than open, on-screen, unashamed sex.

There was no fun in that act of making love. No passion. No lust. It just had to be done. The treatment was brutal. These two were not having sex coz they loved each other, but just because they were the only two people in a world of statues. It was, like an obligation. To save the humanity.

The fact that they are not famous actors makes it all the more less sensationalised. One doesnt see the movie for the sex, but for the reason for which they do it. I remember thinking about the necessity of having the affair in the book, when they could simply have had underground meetings, or writings, or music, or paintings...anything to show the rebellion. But what greater crime than sex itself.

It wasn't adultery as such. Because adultery is discouraged, but accepted; and tolerated. It is UNDERSTANDABLE as to why a perfectly honest person can have an illicit affair with somebody else. But here, it is not tolerated. It is not even a crime. Merely thinking about it is a cirme( the Thought Police). Doing it is a sin so severely condemnable that even burning them alive is not the correct punishment for them. That is why, they feed them to rats - live! And show it to the masses!!