FANTASIA 1984
THE ORWELL’S NOVEL
This piece is inspired by the famous novel “1984” of Orwell (in fact at the time I had only seen an old black and white movie that had been maked from it). In the book it is narrated of a totalitarian society in which a mythical dictator (the Big Brother) spy on all through television cameras and microphones wherever scattered. The government’s party look after continuously rewrite history, so that the citizens lose the memory of what happened and, for that, the ability to rebel, while it require to determine all the aspects of the life of the citizens, even of the private one (on the other hand just this pretension makes the difference between modern totalitarianisms and a simple dictatorship). Winston Smith, calm bureaucrat whose job is exactly that one to alter the documents in order to adapt them to the official version, exits from the grey monotony of this grotesque life when he falls in love, reciprocated, with Julia. It isn’t a simply love story, but the desire of an authentic existence, a renewed society, a happiness before not even imagined. Only that the two are discovered, betrayed from whom they thought to be allied of them in the fight for the truth and a more just society. Imprisoned, tortured, they betray each other: “Do him [her], not to me, that you want!”. They discover that the evil against which they fought is also inside of them. They are released, meet again, but are empty and without hope: the brainwashing that they have suffered incredibly succeeds to make them to feel affection for the Great Brother. Only then the death sentence can be performed, and they will be even happy of it. Without creating martyrs. MY COMPOSITION Return to the list of my compositions
Without hope.
In the film that I seen, in order to make more romantic the end, the two, prey to a last start of truth, after to have been released released “Died to the Big Brother”, provoking the reaction of the guards who fire. They attempt, now dying, to take their hands, but dead prevent them from it. The leafs fly.
