He successfully translates Orwell's ideas to the screen with great clarity. Screenwriter Jonathan Gems has a done a terrific job with the script.
But their passionate, forbidden relationship cannot escape the all-seeing eyes of Big Brother. Winston abides by this (recording his increasingly ambiguous thoughts about society in a hidden, handwritten diary) until he encounters Julia (Suzanna Hamilton), a strange young women with rebellious ideas, to whom he develops a powerful attraction. This is done to eradicate Thoughtcrime and guarantee the worker's total devotion to the Party and its leader, Big Brother. The Party is steadily working on a way to outlaw the concept of the family and the idea of conception. He lives in a world where there is no escape from the authority of the government who regiment the every thought and deed of their subjects. He must also refer to the dictionary of Newsspeak, which is the government's language for the distribution of information. Winston Smith (John Hurt) is a drone worker in the Bureau of Information, and his job is to edit the news in accordance with the needs of the governing Party (which is in continual, seemingly endless war with Eurasia and other opposing states). Whilst the year 1984 may be long past us, the essential themes of George Orwell's best known work still remain as timely and as relevant as ever. From the opening shot of "Nineteen Eighty Four" the viewer is plunged right into the hellhole of Oceania and the ultimate totalitarian nightmare.