Denorius (July 23, 2008 at 11:11 am)

It quit funny 1984 was filmed in lol 1984

southernboygonebad (July 23, 2008 at 6:19 am)

What year did this movie come out?

shorrrno (July 22, 2008 at 2:10 pm)

yeah comrade was better in the book

kingsman565 (July 21, 2008 at 12:10 am)

"i wonder why they used "brother/sister" instead of comrade. I feel like comrade was better. not sure why they swiched" This isn't just an attack on communist system orwell was an avid socialist after all though alot of this is a parody of the soviet system.

stinkymouser (July 20, 2008 at 6:32 am)

if anything can save us from socialist totalitarinism, it is faith in God; for as long as people believe in something higher than man, government cannot be supreme in people's lives.

Leucotea (July 19, 2008 at 11:59 pm)

Im agree... Is weird and scary the way that this book describe the future... and it was 1948!!!

lxnthny (July 18, 2008 at 10:38 pm)

i'm reading the book for my summer assignment.

joshuaslong (July 17, 2008 at 9:35 pm)

Believe it or not, alot of analyses of the book I have read have really tried to warp the meaning from Socialist/Totalitarian critique to a critique of a Christian governemnt. I am pretty sure the switch from "Comrade" was to avoid insulting Communism, which is once again a popular movement, and to shift the blame to the Christian "Brother/Sister" name. Tearing into Christianity is very trendy, but not Orwell's goal for 1984. His mention of the Catholic Church by Obrien was to mock it's failure

faustinesea (July 17, 2008 at 7:49 pm)

I agree with NewfieFlickr666 as to why they changed it, but I still prefer comrade as well. Comrade is gender-neutral, while brother/sister brings attention to gender differences. As the government is trying to get rid of sex altogether, comrade just makes more sense.

krelbar (July 17, 2008 at 1:41 pm)

Yes. The book is highly relevant, especially in these times.Nowadays we use words like hatespeech, we are starting to have perpetual wars.