Ichi Kyu Hachi Yon / Hara Title : Nineteen Eighty Four

[Machine Translation] The protagonist, Winston, is in charge of official history revision at the Ministry of Truth in Ingsoc, a wartime super-controlled society controlled by Big Brother and the Party, where it is unclear which side they are on. However, he begins writing a forbidden diary, and as he indulges in forbidden encounters with the young Julia, he gradually begins to question and rebel against the society in which he lives. However, the moment he thinks he has joined an anti-government organization, he is captured by the state, and is forced to confront the current high-tech surveillance society, mass domination through information manipulation and fake news, restrictions on social freedom under the pretext of war and terrorism, thought manipulation through snitching and labor reformatories and correctional camps, social class fixation and social inequality, and all the other aspects of modern controlled society, The film is an inimitable masterpiece, packed with all the other aspects of modern managed society in a terrifying density.

主人公ウィンストンは、ビッグ・ブラザーと党が支配する、どこが相手かもはっきりしない戦時下の超管理社会イングソックの真実省で、公式の歴史改変を担当している。だがふとしたきっかけで禁断の日記を書き始め、そして若いジュリアとの禁断の逢瀬にふける中で、次第に自分の暮らす社会に対する疑問と反発を強める。しかし反政府組織に参加したと思った瞬間、彼は国家に捕らえられ―現在のハイテク監視社会、情報操作とフェイクニュースによる大衆支配、戦争やテロを口実にした社会的自由の制約、密告と労働改造所や矯正収容所の思考操作、社会階級の固定化と格差社会、その他現代管理社会のありとあらゆる側面が恐ろしいほどの密度で詰め込まれた、不世出の傑作。