![]() ![]() Others are a bit more esoteric providing great visual potential but difficult to crack characters who live in their heads. ![]() Some stories are naturally cinematic and are easy to deliver to the screen. I tend to give movies a lot of leeway when it comes to adapting books and comics. Our own Josh Zyber did a great review of the 2015 Twilight Time release on the Off the Shelfblog that you absolutely should check out. When he begins a forbidden affair with the free-thinking Julia (Suzanna Hamilton), he becomes a target for Inner Party member O'Brien (Richard Burton) and the Thought Police. The day he started keeping a secret journal, Winston Smith (John Hurt) was guilty of Oceana's most serious crime - Thoughtcrime. Anyone not in line with The Party and supreme leader Big Brother undergoes harsh reeducation - or are eliminated from all historical record. The Party is the law, and the party is never wrong rewriting history and depicting world events to meet its vision. Oceana is the last thriving civilization of the world. "If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
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