1984 (1956) Movie Script
This is our land.
A land of peace and of plenty.
A land of harmony and hope.
This is our land.
Oceania.
These are our people.
The workers, the strivers, the builders.
These are our people.
The builders of our world, struggling...
fighting, bleeding...
dying.
On the streets of our cities
and on the far-flung battlefields.
Fighting against the mutilation
of our hopes and dreams.
Who are they?
Eurasia! Eurasia!
They are the dark armies.
The dark, murdering armies of Eurasia.
In the barren deserts of Africa and India...
on the oceans of Australasia...
courage, strength, and youth are sacrificed.
Sacrificed to barbarians,
whose only honor is atrocity.
But even as we grasp at victory...
there is a cancer, an evil tumor...
growing, spreading in our midst.
Shout, shout...
shout out his name!
Goldstein!
Nothing the Party says is true.
Nothing the Party does is good.
Even the war itself isn't real.
The Party wants you to believe
we are at war...
so as to channel your aggressions
away from their rightful target...
the Party.
Big Brother is not real.
He is pure fiction, created by the Party.
The real rulers of the State...
are unknown, faceless manipulators...
who, because they are not known...
are able to wield power
without let or hindrance.
People of Oceania, you are being duped.
The Party doesn't serve the people,
it serves itself.
We are not at war with Eurasia.
Death! Death! Traitor!
You are being made into obedient...
stupid slaves of the Party.
Open your eyes.
See the evil that is happening to you.
The Party drops bombs on its own citizens.
Traitor!
It is the Party, not the Eurasians,
who are our enemies.
Rise up.
Throw off the yoke.
You have nothing to lose,
and everything to gain.
People of Oceania.
Big, Big, Big...
Innuendo, deleted.
Intransigence, rendered as crime.
Inversion...
Back, Day One.
Ref. Times 14-2-84, Page 3,
Byline 2, should read:
"Miniprod Forecasts Increase
Chocolate Ration, April, 1984...
"from 20 to 25 Grams Per Week. "
I confess to spreading the rumor,
on orders from Goldstein...
that the war is not really with Eurasia,
but with Eastasia.
That, for years, in fact since the days
of our glorious Revolution...
I had no faith in our future.
I forged government announcements
and falsified figures...
quoted for agricultural
and industrial production.
As a result of mental disturbance from
my experiences during the atomic wars...
I was a willing subject
of Goldstein's influence.
I was stubborn and egocentric.
When ownlife thoughts occurred to me,
I reveled in them.
I went into the proletarian zones...
I had sex with prostitutes,
I deliberately contracted syphilis.
It was at this time
that I made contact with the Resistance.
I was personally contacted
by the archtraitor, Goldstein...
and ordered to assassinate
certain Inner Party officials.
Bugger!
This I did.
My agents forged documents
and gained entry into the Ministry...
"Thoughtcrime is death.
"Thoughtcrime does not entail death.
"Thoughtcrime is death.
"I have committed,
even before setting pen to paper...
"the essential crime
that contains all others in itself. "
I have spent many hours
of my free time, encouraging my agents...
to deface Party posters
and hoarding announcements.
I read and memorized Goldstein's book.
For 30 years,
I have plotted to bring down the Party.
I was sick in mind and body.
Together with my colleagues,
Aaronson and Rutherford...
I did counterfeit
important Party documents...
including ex-London permits
and travel passes.
And that by use of these documents...
my agents traveled freely
throughout Airstrip One...
encouraging insurrection
and organizing a massive counterplot...
to destroy the innermost faction
of the Oceanian leadership.
Furthermore...
I used my position of privilege
within the Inner Party...
to pervert and betray the truth at all times...
and to suggest, wherever possible,
that our traditional allies in Eastasia...
were in fact, our deadly enemies.
"April the 4th, 1984. "
In my position as Chief Factory Planner...
"I think... "
I stole military plans...
and, at vast financial profit,
sold them to the Eurasian leadership.
"... to the past...
"or to the future...
"to an age when thought is free.
"From the age of Big Brother...
"from the age of the Thought Police...
"from a dead man...
"greetings!"
Right, let's see which one of us
can touch his toes.
Right over from the hips,
brothers and sisters, please.
One, two.
Smith? 6079, Smith, W.?
Yes, you.
Bend lower.
You're not trying. Watch me.
There, brother. That's what I want.
Anyone under 45 is perfectly
capable of touching his toes.
I'm 39, and I've had four children.
We don't all have the privilege
of fighting in the front line.
Remember our boys on the Malabar Front.
Just think what they have to put up with.
Production of water-heaters
is up 1.5 percent.
Switchgear, 4.5 percent.
Electrical wiring, 10 percent.
Cigarettes, 18 percent.
Bricks, 3 percent.
Morning, Smith.
Parsons.
Heard the rumor?
No. Good news, is it?
I should say so, yes.
Choco rations going up.
Really?
Twenty-five grams next week.
Doubleplus good.
Speakwrites, 14 percent.
Vibra-aging castings, 9 percent.
By the way, Smith, I seem to have run out
of razor blades for some reason.
You wouldn't happen to have any spare,
would you?
I'm sorry, brother. I'm on the last one.
Bandages, 9 percent.
In 1983, Oceania's coal output...
reached 630 million tons.
In 1976, coal output was 605 million tons...
an increase of 4. 1 percent.
an increase of 17.6 percent.
I wanted to ask you if you've got
any razor blades?
I've tried all over the place.
I've been using the same one for six weeks.
...a staggering increase of 93.4 percent.
Did you see the prisoners
hanged yesterday?
No, I was working.
But I shall see it on the screens.
You'll pick up the gin on the way?
I'll have two.
Mark 5 submachine guns...
light machine guns...
Give me a gin.
recoil-operated heavy machine guns...
and 1.4 million lightweight...
spigot-launching,
anti-tank rocket projectors.
Food production is also up...
-How's the Newspeak Committee?
-Working overtime.
...butter, 2 percent, milk, 6 percent.
Plusbig waste is in adjectives.
Plusbig problem is timing the language
to scientific advance.
It's a beautiful thing,
the destruction of words.
You won't have seen the Dictionary,
It's that thick.
The 11th edition will be that thick.
So the Revolution will be complete
when the language is perfect.
The secret's to move from translation,
to direct thought, to automatic response.
No need for self-discipline.
Language coming from here, not from here.
Excuse me for intruding.
You're saying that we'll be rid of
the last vestiges of Goldsteinism...
when the language has been cleaned.
-I couldn't agree with you more, brother.
-Absolutely.
Praise be to our leader
and the Party workers!
Other munitions production figures
are as follows.
with 76-mm cannon.
Smith. Syme.
It's encouraging to think that by 2050...
not a single person will be able
to have a conversation like this.
Except the proles?
The proletariat don't count. They're animals.
See the hanging?
Missed it, myself.
Bloody committees.
Doubleplus good, this.
You know, I don't think
there's a single piece of meat in this stew.
Looks like meat. Tastes like meat.
It isn't meat at all.
Doubleplus good.
Not like it, Smith?
Yes, it's too rich for me.
Do you mind if I...
Brothers and sisters,
the battle for production has been won.
Completed returns
show that the standard of living...
has risen by no less than 20 percent
over the last year.
All over Oceania there've been spontaneous
demonstrations of Party workers...
voicing their gratitude and joy!
In honor of this massive overfulfillment
of the ninth three-year plan...
it's been announced that chocolate ration
is to be increased to 25 grams per week!
"If there is hope...
"it lies in the proles.
"If they could become conscious
of their own strength...
"they would have no need to conspire.
"History does not matter to them.
"It was three years ago...
"on a dark evening.
"Easy to slip the patrols.
"And I'd gone into the proletarian areas.
"There was no one else in the street,
and no telescreens.
"She said, '$2. '
"So I went with her.
"She had a young face...
"painted very thick.
"It was really the paint that appealed to me...
"the whiteness of it, like a mask...
"and the bright red lips. "
Come on.
"There were no preliminaries.
"Standing there, with the scent
of dead insects and cheap perfume...
"I went ahead and did it, just the same. "
Rutherford unperson.
Substitute Ogilvy.
Ogilvy bio, details as follows:
"War hero.
"Recently killed, Malabar Front.
"Today awarded posthumous
Order of Conspicuous Merit, Second Class. "
I accuse myself of sabotage...
embezzlement of Party funds...
sale of military secrets...
of being in the pay
of the Government of Eurasia...
of being a sexual pervert
and a thoughtcriminal.
I exploited my trusted position
at the Ministry of Peace...
to mislead our allies in Eastasia...
and also to corrupt youth by means
of seditious literature and drugs.
I am guilty on all counts.
I stand here...
a victim of the influence of...
"Under the spreading chestnut tree...
"I sold you...
"you sold me. "
And I ask only...
for you to accept...
my love of our leader.
Can I help you?
Anything special?
I was here before.
Razor blades.
You sold me the notebook.
Yes.
Please look around.
What's this?
It's a beautiful thing.
Over 100 years old.
Cost you $4.
There's another room upstairs
that you might like to see.
But there's not much in it.
Just a few things.
My woman's dead.
I'm just trying to sell the furniture.
It's a beautiful bed...
if you can get the bugs out of it.
Interested in old prints at all?
The frame's fixed to the wall,
but I daresay I could unscrew it.
How did this escape?
I know what it is.
It's the museum in the street
outside the Palace of Justice.
"'Oranges and lemons,'
say the bells of St. Clement's. "
What was that?
Something old.
War is peace!
Freedom is slavery!
Ignorance is strength!
A triumph of willpower over the orgasm.
At a rally of the Anti-Sex League
in Victory Square tonight...
held to celebrate a 50-percent decrease
in civil marriages...
over 10,000 Party women
took a vow of celibacy...
and pledged themselves as vessels
for the artificial insemination...
"I hate her.
"I should kill her before she denounces me.
"I have disliked her
from the first moment of seeing her. "
Sector 43...
Sector 44...
Sector 45...
Sector 46...
-Are you hurt?
-It's nothing.
It's my arm.
I'll be all right in a second.
Brother, could you...
Are you all right?
It's nothing.
I only gave my wrist a bit of a bang.
Thank you, brother.
Who is she?
All I know is that she works
in the corner section...
probably on the proletarian
novel-writing machines.
Mrs. Parsons? A spanner?
Under the sink, beside you.
Thank you, brother.
I wouldn't have had to bother you,
but my husband's out late.
Committees.
You know what us Parsons are like.
You're a thoughtcriminal.
They haven't been out much.
Thank you, brother.
Attention! Your attention, please!
A newsflash has this moment arrived
from the Malabar Front.
The forces of Oceania in South India
have won a glorious victory.
I am authorized to say
that the war against Eurasia...
is within measurable distance of its end.
have been killed or captured.
Can you hear me?
Yes.
Do you have an ex-London permit?
Yes.
Can you get Sunday afternoon off?
Yes.
Take this.
It's quite precise. I rely on you to destroy it.
Are you sure you can come?
Yes.
On your own, brother?
No, I'm joining the Vic Mans
community hiking group.
I was held up on urgent Minrec business.
Sing to the bravest on the sturdy fortress
Sing to the soldiers on the battlefields
Sing to the airmen in the burning azure
Sing to the farmers' rising yields
We are the children, builders of the future
And we the children swear to thee
Loyal devotion, fearless devotion
And to die with dignity
Sing to the faithful...
A daring and resourceful maneuver...
under the personal direction
of B.B. himself...
ensuring the total annihilation of
the Eurasian heavy-armored divisions...
Look.
It's a dream.
I want you.
Not here.
Come back to the woods, it's safer.
Have you done this before?
Of course.
Hundreds of times.
-With Party members?
-Yes.
Inner Party members?
Not with those bastards.
Though there's plenty who would.
Look, I hate purity.
I hate goodness.
I don't want virtue to exist anywhere.
I want everyone corrupt.
I ought to suit you, then.
I'm corrupt to the core.
Do you like doing this?
I don't mean just me.
I adore it.
Winston?
We shall meet in the place
where there is no darkness.
Adult literacy amongst the proletariat
has risen by 56 percent.
The proletarian infant mortality rate
has dropped by 12 percent.
Incidences of leukemia, tuberculosis,
and meningitis have dropped considerably.
Improved diet has been responsible
for a dramatic decrease in rickets.
Eye diseases show a steep drop.
So, too, do deaths
from pneumonia and smallpox.
The improvement in
sewerage and drainage systems...
has resulted in better health, overall.
State rodent operatives
report a 50-percent reduction...
in the number of vermin
in the central proletarian zones.
I just want to finish by saying a few words...
about the impact
of this imminent neurological breakthrough.
When the orgasm
has been finally eradicated...
the last remaining obstacle
to the psychological acceptance...
of the principles of Ingsoc,
as applied to artsem, will be overcome.
In other words, the unorthodox tendencies
towards ownlife...
which constantly threaten
the natural erosion of the family unit...
will no longer have
the biological support of the organism.
As we all know, the biological and
social stimulation of the family leads to...
private reflection, outside Party needs...
and to the establishment
of unorthodox loyalties...
which can only lead to thoughtcrime.
The introduction of artsem, combined
with the neutralization of the orgasm...
will effectively render obsolete the family...
until it becomes impossible
to conceptualize.
Thank you.
Excuse me, brother.
You dropped your ink pencil.
Thank you, sister.
A pincer movement has developed...
involving the floating fortresses
of the Eurasian 17th Fleet...
Not much.
Not much left at all, these days.
Walls.
Police don't like us much.
That room...
how much?
$4 a week.
Traitor!
Traitor! Criminal!
Big, Big, Big...
A vast military buildup
of armored divisions...
missiles and floating fortresses,
accompanied by a fourfold increase...
in the number of
radio-controlled rocket bombs...
directed at the most
densely populated areas of Airstrip One...
It is folly...
as though deliberately,
we move one step nearer the grave.
I can't understand why
she accepted the idea...
she, who is so careful.
Hello.
Let me show you what I've brought.
Look.
What is it?
Real sugar.
Not saccharin.
And I've got a loaf of bread,
proper white bread...
and jam.
A real tin of milk.
Look.
Coffee.
Real coffee.
Inner Party. Half a kilo.
How did you manage
to get ahold of all this?
There's nothing those bastards don't have.
Aren't you pleased?
Yes.
Of course.
Real tea.
There's been a lot of tea about lately.
They've captured India or something.
I want you.
I want you, too.
Wait.
Turn around, and don't look until I tell you.
Listen to that.
How can she make a song
written by a machine sound so beautiful?
You can turn around now.
-I...
-Winston...
Do you like me?
More than ever.
Was there ever a time
when this seemed ordinary?
Attention! Your attention, please!
A vast military buildup
has been reported in the Sahara Desert...
sectors 17 and 18 of the war zone.
"There is truth, and there is untruth. "
...have been sighted proceeding in convoy
in a northerly direction...
"Freedom...
"is the freedom to say
two plus two equals four.
"If that is granted...
"all else follows. "
That is the end of the announcement.
We'll rehab the war from a neutral zone,
remaking dust in interstate plusplan levels.
Intend ego 1980 level
in dust output by 48 percent.
Stop, end emission.
Re: Times, 31-10-81.
Brother Tillotson wins Mini chess.
Request photo. File follows.
Attention. Your attention, please.
Will all Outer Party members
of Ways and Means Committees...
please attend their local
community centers for discussions and...
"Under the spreading chestnut tree...
"I sold you, you sold me. "
The meetings begin at 20.:00 hours.
Smith?
I've been reading
your Newspeak articles in The Times.
Yes.
You write very elegantly.
That is not my own opinion.
I was recently talking to a friend of yours,
who is an expert.
His name has slipped my memory
for a moment.
What I wanted to say was, that there were
one or two unwords, only very recent.
Have you seen the 10th edition
of the Newspeak Dictionary?
No, we're still using
the 9th edition at Minrec.
A few advance copies
have been segregated. I have one myself.
You might be interested.
Yes.
There are some plus skillful
new developments.
Let me give you my address.
I'm usually at home in the evenings.
If not, my servant
will give you the dictionary.
"It has happened at last.
"The call has come.
"It seems that all my life...
"I've been waiting for it. "
...is to be named after
Sub-lieutenant Ogilvy...
hero of the State of Oceania...
recently awarded, posthumously,
the Order of Conspicuous Gallantry...
for his action
in the recent glorious victory...
over the forces of Eastasia
on the Malabar Front, in South India.
Half the water's boiled away.
What does the clock say?
It says 21:00 hours.
What time do they cut the light
in your flats?
At the hostel it's 23:00.
What is it?
I don't know.
A little chunk of history
that they've forgotten to alter.
Message from 100 years ago.
"'Oranges and lemons,'
say the bells of St. Clement's. "
"'You owe me three farthings,'
say the bells of St. Martin's. "
Who taught you that? What is it?
I don't know. I just know it.
You know, the only thing to do...
is to walk out of here before it's too late...
and never see one another again.
Yes.
Our luck can't last.
You're young...
you look normal, you're innocent.
You keep clear of people like me,
and you might stay alive.
What you do, I do.
I've thought it out.
I'm good at staying alive.
When shall we meet again?
Not for several weeks. It's not safe.
Give me half an hour.
I love you.
Julia...
Do you think the Resistance is real?
No.
None of it's real.
Steamer! Dead overhead! Get down!
...round the clock, plus a 153 sets
in eyes top a P.M.A. Willmer.
"Oceania is at war with Eastasia.
"Oceania has always been
at war with Eastasia.
"Eurasia is our ally.
Eurasia has always been our ally.
"Everything fades into mist.
"The past is erased, the erasure forgotten.
"A lie becomes truth
and then becomes a lie again. "
What is it?
I dreamt...
about my mother.
What, darling?
It was during the wars...
before the Party.
Winston!
I couldn't help myself.
I knew what I had done...
and I couldn't help myself.
When I went back, hours later...
my mother and sister were gone.
I never saw them again.
So it's not just staying alive.
It's staying human that's important.
What counts...
is that we don't betray each other.
If you mean confessing,
we're bound to do that.
Everybody does.
You can't help it.
I don't mean confessing.
Confessing isn't betrayal.
I mean feelings.
If they can make me change my feelings...
they can stop me from loving you.
That will be real betrayal.
They can't do that.
It's the one thing they can't do.
They can torture you...
and make you say anything.
But they can't make you believe it.
They can't get inside you.
They can't get to your heart.
I'm going to see O'Brien.
I know.
Outer Party Member 53922...
Hicks, Minirec, Proletarian Affairs Section.
Outer Party Member 22315...
Howard, Miniprod, Hospital Section.
Outer Party Member 947743...
Bolgar, Minitrue, Records Section.
Outer Party Member 5739,
Brady, Minitrue, Records Section.
Outer Party Member 984213...
Devereux, Minitrue, Records Section.
Outer Party member 9106...
Dawes, Minitrue, Porno Section.
Outer Party Member 38091...
Ware, Minitrue, Porno Section.
Outer Party Member 11792...
Bigland, Minitrue, News Section.
"Items one, comma, five, comma, seven,
approved fullwise. Stop.
"Suggestion contained item six doubleplus
ridiculous verging crimethink...
"Cancel, stop. End message. "
Outer Party Member 4392...
Rosenblum, Miniprod,
Light Industry Section.
Outer Party Member 66755...
Davis, Miniprod, Women's Section.
That concludes the list
of known agents of Goldstein...
actively engaged in the latest conspiracy...
Not much of this gets
to the Outer Party, I'm afraid.
To our leader.
...that our eternal allies in Eurasia
are turning against us.
More nests of conspirators
and saboteurs have been uncovered...
and further arrests are expected shortly.
You can...
Yes. We are allowed that privilege.
Some more of this?
It's called wine.
There are thoughtcriminals
who maintain the Resistance is not real.
Believe me, Winston...
it is very real.
Perhaps you are not familiar
with how it operates.
I'm attentive to the news.
Indeed.
Perhaps you imagine
a huge network of conspirators...
prepared to commit
any atrocity to demoralize...
and weaken the order of our society.
The reality is infinitely more subtle.
If Goldstein himself...
fell into the hands of the Thought Police,
he could not give them a list of his agents.
Such a list does not exist.
They're not an organization
in the sense we know.
Nothing holds it together but an idea.
There is no possibility of change
in their lifetime.
In the face of the Thought Police...
they cannot act collectively.
Individually, they cheat...
forge, blackmail, corrupt children...
spread disease and prostitution...
in the name of spreading knowledge
from generation to generation.
Until...
in a thousand years...
You may find this of interest.
Thank you.
...address a rally in Victory Square
at 21.:30 hours.
That is the end of the announcement.
Goodbye, brother.
They have attacked an unarmed village
with rocket bombs...
and murdered 4,000 defenseless, innocent...
and peaceful citizens of Oceania.
This is no longer war.
This is cold-blooded murder.
Until now, the war has been conducted
with honor...
and bravery...
with the ideals of truth and justice,
in the best traditions of mankind...
until this moment.
Brothers and sisters...
the endless catalogue of bestial atrocities...
which will inevitably ensue
from this appalling act...
must, can, and will be terminated.
The forces of darkness
and treasonable maggots...
who collaborate with them,
must, can, and will...
be wiped from the face of the earth.
We must crush them.
We must smash them.
We must stamp them out.
We, the people of Oceania...
...will not rest until a final victory
has been achieved.
Death to the eternal enemy of Oceania.
Death!
Brothers and sisters...
one week from now...
in this very square...
we shall,
as a demonstration of our resolve...
as a sure sign to those
who attempt to threaten...
our Party and our State...
we shall execute publicly...
the same number of Eastasian prisoners...
by hanging, drawing and quartering.
Big, Big, Big...
"In accordance to the principles
of Doublethink...
"it does not matter if the war is not real...
"or when it is, that victory is not possible.
"The war is not meant to be won.
It is meant to be continuous.
"The essential act of modern warfare...
"is the destruction of the produce
of human labor.
"A hierarchical society is only possible
on the basis of poverty and ignorance.
"In principle,
the war effort is always planned...
"to keep society on the brink of starvation.
"The war is waged by the ruling group
against its own subjects.
"And its object is not victory
over Eurasia or Eastasia...
"but to keep the very structure
of society intact. "
Julia?
Are you awake?
There is truth, and there is untruth.
To be in a minority of one
doesn't make you mad.
Julia, my love...
I understand how.
I don't understand why.
I'm hungry.
Let's make some more coffee.
The water's cold.
There's no oil in it.
That's strange. I thought it was full.
They say that time heals all things
They say you can always forget
But the smiles and the tears
across the years
they twist my heartstrings yet.
She's beautiful.
She's a meter across the hips. Easily.
It's her style of beauty.
The future is hers.
We are the dead.
We are the dead.
You are the dead.
Remain exactly where you are.
Make no move until you are ordered.
Now they can see us.
Now we can see you.
Clasp your hands behind your heads.
Stand out in the middle of the room.
Stand back-to-back.
Do not touch one another.
The house is surrounded.
The house is surrounded.
I suppose we may as well say goodbye.
You may as well say goodbye.
While we're on the subject...
"Here comes a candle to light you to bed.
"Here comes a chopper
to chop off your head. "
Pick that up.
Thought Police.
Parsons.
Keep away from me, Smith.
I'm an agent of Goldstein.
I didn't know it myself.
Thoughtcrime is so insidious.
It just creeps up on you.
My daughter found it out.
Very proud of her.
Very grateful I've been discovered
before it's too late.
They won't shoot me, will they, Smith?
I know I could be very useful
in a labor camp.
Room 101.
No.
Please, you don't have to take me there.
Why?
There's nothing I won't confess.
Nothing.
I've told you everything already.
What is it you want me to know?
Take him instead of me.
He's the thoughtcriminal. It's him you want.
They got you, too.
They got me a long time ago.
You knew this would happen, Winston.
Don't deceive yourself.
You've always known it.
The photos of you and the girl
will be recycled for proletarian use.
Do you know where you are, Winston?
I don't know.
I can guess.
In the Ministry of Love.
Do you know how long you've been here?
No.
Weeks?
Months?
Do you know why you're here?
Shall I tell you why we brought you here?
To cure you.
To make you sane.
That was 40.
You can see that the numbers
on this dial run up to 100.
Will you please remember
that, during our conversation?
I have it in my power
to inflict pain on you at any time...
and in whatever degree I choose.
You know perfectly well
what is the matter with you, Winston.
You've known it for years, though
you've fought against the knowledge.
You are mentally deranged.
You suffer from a defective memory.
You never tried to cure yourself of it,
because you did not choose to.
It was a small effort of will,
which you were not ready to make.
For example...
which power is Oceania at war with?
Eastasia.
Oceania is at war with Eastasia.
Eastasia.
Good.
And Oceania has always been at war
with Eastasia, has it not?
Tell me what you think you remember.
I remember...
that until only a week
before I was arrested...
we weren't at war with Eastasia at all.
It was Eurasia.
That lasted four years, I think.
Another example.
A serious delusion.
Photographs about which
you've had hallucinations...
which you believed you held in your hand.
They never existed.
Say what you were about to say, Winston.
They exist...
in memory.
I remember.
You remember.
I do not remember.
Only the disciplined mind
can see reality, Winston.
It needs an act of self-destruction...
an effort of the will.
Do you remember writing in your diary:
"Freedom is the freedom to say
two plus two equals four"?
Yes.
How many fingers am I holding up?
Four.
And if the Party says there are not four,
but five, then how many?
Five.
No.
That's no use. You're lying.
How many fingers, please?
Four. What else could I say?
Five, or anything you like.
Will you please stop it?
Stop the pain.
How can I help it?
How can I help
what I see in front of my eyes?
Two and two makes four.
Sometimes, Winston.
Sometimes they are five,
sometimes they are three.
Sometimes they are all of them at once.
Neither the past, nor the present,
nor the future...
exists in its own right.
Reality is in the human mind...
not in the individual mind...
which makes mistakes and soon perishes...
but in the mind of the Party...
which is collective and immortal.
-Again.
-No.
How many fingers, Winston?
Four.
Four, I suppose there are four.
I tried to see five.
I wish I could.
Which do you wish?
To persuade me that you can see five,
or really to see them?
Really to see them.
Again.
How many, Winston?
I don't know.
Better.
No one escapes, Winston.
There are no martyrs here.
All the confessions made here are true.
We do not destroy the heretic
because he resists us.
As long as he resists us,
we never destroy him.
We make him one of ourselves
before we kill him.
We make his brain perfect
before we blow it out.
And then...
when there is nothing left
but sorrow and love of Big Brother...
we shall lift you clean out of history.
We shall turn you into gas
and pour you into the stratosphere.
Nothing will remain of you.
Not a name in a register.
Not a memory in a living brain.
You will be annihilated in the past,
as well as in the future.
Three thousand.
This time it won't hurt you.
Before we bring this session to an end...
I want you to ask me your questions.
I want you to clear your mind.
Julia.
She betrayed you, Winston...
immediately, unreservedly.
All her rebellion, deceit,
folly, dirty-mindedness...
has been turned out of her.
Does Big Brother exist?
Of course.
The same way as me?
You do not exist.
You've not asked me the question
that is uppermost in your mind.
You know what is in Room 101.
Everyone knows what's in Room 101.
Now...
fix your eyes on mine.
What country is Oceania at war with?
I don't remember.
Oceania is at war with Eastasia.
Do you remember that now?
Yes.
How many fingers am I holding up?
Five.
You see, at least, that it is possible.
You've understood the reality of the past...
and of the present.
Now for the future.
A question:
"How does one man
assert power over another?"
By making him suffer.
Exactly. Obedience is not enough.
Power is inflicting pain and humiliation.
Otherwise, you cannot be sure.
Power is tearing human minds apart...
and putting them together again
in new shapes of your own choosing.
Power is not a means, it is an end.
In our world, there will only be triumph
and self-abasement.
Everything else, we shall destroy.
The past is forbidden. Why?
Because when we can cut man
from his own past...
then we can cut him from his family,
his children, other men.
There is no loyalty,
except loyalty to the Party.
There is no love, except love of Big Brother.
All competing pleasures, we will destroy.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine...
a boot stamping on a human face forever.
You are thinking
that my face is old and tired...
that while I talk of power...
I'm unable to prevent
the decay of my own body.
But the individual is only a cell.
And the weariness of the cell
is the vigor of the organism.
-You'll fail.
-Why?
It's impossible.
Hatred, the fear of life.
Why is hate less vital than love?
I don't know.
But somehow you'll fail.
Something will defeat you.
Life will defeat you.
We control life at all levels.
We create human nature.
Men are infinitely malleable.
Or perhaps you've returned to your old idea
that the proletarians will arise.
Put it out of your mind.
They are helpless animals.
Humanity is the body.
I don't care. In the end, they'll beat you.
Sooner or later, they'll tear you to pieces.
On what evidence?
Goldstein's book.
I wrote it.
Or, at least, I collaborated in writing it.
No book is individually produced,
as you know.
I just believe it.
I know you'll fail.
Something in this world...
some spirit you will never overcome...
What is it, this principle?
I don't know.
The spirit of man.
And do you consider yourself a man?
Yes.
If you are a man, you're the last man.
Your kind is extinct.
We are the inheritors.
Do you understand that you are alone?
You are outside history.
You unexist.
Get up.
Come here.
Look at you.
You're rotting away.
That is the last man.
If you are human, that is humanity.
It will not last forever.
You can escape from it
whenever you choose.
Everything depends on you.
You did it.
You reduced me to this.
No, Winston.
You reduced yourself to it.
When will you shoot me?
Might take a long time.
But don't give up hope.
Everyone is cured sooner or later.
And in the end...
we shall shoot you.
The law of gravity is nonsense.
No such law exists.
If I think I float...
and you think I float...
then it happens.
I love you.
You have the strength, Winston.
You have the whole Party.
You are the Party.
You're one of us, one of the chosen.
I love you.
I love you, too.
Julia, my love.
Get up.
Stand up straighter.
Look me in the face.
Tell me, Winston, and remember, no lies.
What are your true feelings
towards Big Brother?
-I hate him.
-You must love him.
It's not enough to obey him.
You must love him.
Room 101.
You asked me once, Winston,
what was in Room 101.
I told you that you knew, already.
Everyone knows.
The thing that is in Room 101...
is the worst thing in the world.
It goes beyond fear of pain or death.
It is unendurable,
and it varies from individual to individual.
It may be burial alive or castration...
or many other things.
In your case, it is rats.
No.
Please. What do you want me to do?
You will do what is required of you.
What? What is it?
How can I do it if I don't know what it is?
In the proletarian areas,
they will attack a baby...
and within five minutes, strip it to the bone.
They also attack the sick and dying.
They show astonishing intelligence
in knowing when a human being is helpless.
Please.
The mask fits over your head,
leaving no exit.
I press the first lever...
and the rats move into
the front compartment.
I press the second,
and the door of the cage will slide up.
These starving brutes
will shoot at you like bullets.
Have you ever seen a rat
leap through the air?
They will leap onto your face
and bore straight into it.
Sometimes they attack the eyes first.
Sometimes they burrow through the cheeks
and devour the tongue.
Tell me. What do you want?
No, please.
I love you.
Do it to her! Do it to Julia!
I don't care what you do to her,
but do it to her!
Tear her my face off!
Do it to Julia, not to me!
Do it to Julia!
Not me!
A vast military buildup has been reported
in the Sahara Desert...
in Sectors 17 and 18 of the war zones.
That is the end of the announcement.
Brother.
On the house.
Thank you for coming.
You are warned to stand by
for an important announcement at 15.:30.
This is news of
the gravest national consequence...
concerning the war with Eurasia.
Are you worried about the African front?
The news is disquieting in the extreme.
I've been worrying about it all day.
It's not just a question of losing Africa.
For the first time, the territory of Oceania
itself is threatened by invasion.
It's inconceivable.
It must have been possible
to outflank them in some way.
I have an instinct.
There's bad news on the way.
I told them all about you.
I'm only thankful they got me
before it was too late.
Yes, I told them about you, too.
Thoughtcrime...
sexcrime, all your treachery.
I have a meeting to go to.
We must meet again.
Yes.
We must meet again.
I accuse myself of the following crimes.:
I have seduced Party members
of both sexes...
I've been to the proletarian areas...
I deliberately contracted syphilis
in order to spread the disease...
to my wife and other Party members.
Together with other agents,
I have counterfeited banknotes...
wrecked industrial machinery,
polluted the water supply...
guided Eurasian rocket bombs
to targets on Airstrip One...
by means of coded radio signals.
I stand here, a victim of the influence
of Emmanuel Goldstein.
Guilty on all counts.
I'm glad I was caught.
I was mentally deranged.
Now I am cured.
I ask only for you to accept
my love of our leader.
I ask only to be shot
while my mind is still clean.
A glorious victory!
A vast, strategic maneuver to outflank...
the Eurasian Forces on the African front
has been successful.
Perfectly coordinated, it has resulted
in the utter rout of the Eurasian Army.
There have been nearly a million prisoners.
It has been an utter rout.
Waiter?
This immense victory brings the war
within measurable distance of its end.
Wonderful news.
I love you.
A land of peace and of plenty.
A land of harmony and hope.
This is our land.
Oceania.
These are our people.
The workers, the strivers, the builders.
These are our people.
The builders of our world, struggling...
fighting, bleeding...
dying.
On the streets of our cities
and on the far-flung battlefields.
Fighting against the mutilation
of our hopes and dreams.
Who are they?
Eurasia! Eurasia!
They are the dark armies.
The dark, murdering armies of Eurasia.
In the barren deserts of Africa and India...
on the oceans of Australasia...
courage, strength, and youth are sacrificed.
Sacrificed to barbarians,
whose only honor is atrocity.
But even as we grasp at victory...
there is a cancer, an evil tumor...
growing, spreading in our midst.
Shout, shout...
shout out his name!
Goldstein!
Nothing the Party says is true.
Nothing the Party does is good.
Even the war itself isn't real.
The Party wants you to believe
we are at war...
so as to channel your aggressions
away from their rightful target...
the Party.
Big Brother is not real.
He is pure fiction, created by the Party.
The real rulers of the State...
are unknown, faceless manipulators...
who, because they are not known...
are able to wield power
without let or hindrance.
People of Oceania, you are being duped.
The Party doesn't serve the people,
it serves itself.
We are not at war with Eurasia.
Death! Death! Traitor!
You are being made into obedient...
stupid slaves of the Party.
Open your eyes.
See the evil that is happening to you.
The Party drops bombs on its own citizens.
Traitor!
It is the Party, not the Eurasians,
who are our enemies.
Rise up.
Throw off the yoke.
You have nothing to lose,
and everything to gain.
People of Oceania.
Big, Big, Big...
Innuendo, deleted.
Intransigence, rendered as crime.
Inversion...
Back, Day One.
Ref. Times 14-2-84, Page 3,
Byline 2, should read:
"Miniprod Forecasts Increase
Chocolate Ration, April, 1984...
"from 20 to 25 Grams Per Week. "
I confess to spreading the rumor,
on orders from Goldstein...
that the war is not really with Eurasia,
but with Eastasia.
That, for years, in fact since the days
of our glorious Revolution...
I had no faith in our future.
I forged government announcements
and falsified figures...
quoted for agricultural
and industrial production.
As a result of mental disturbance from
my experiences during the atomic wars...
I was a willing subject
of Goldstein's influence.
I was stubborn and egocentric.
When ownlife thoughts occurred to me,
I reveled in them.
I went into the proletarian zones...
I had sex with prostitutes,
I deliberately contracted syphilis.
It was at this time
that I made contact with the Resistance.
I was personally contacted
by the archtraitor, Goldstein...
and ordered to assassinate
certain Inner Party officials.
Bugger!
This I did.
My agents forged documents
and gained entry into the Ministry...
"Thoughtcrime is death.
"Thoughtcrime does not entail death.
"Thoughtcrime is death.
"I have committed,
even before setting pen to paper...
"the essential crime
that contains all others in itself. "
I have spent many hours
of my free time, encouraging my agents...
to deface Party posters
and hoarding announcements.
I read and memorized Goldstein's book.
For 30 years,
I have plotted to bring down the Party.
I was sick in mind and body.
Together with my colleagues,
Aaronson and Rutherford...
I did counterfeit
important Party documents...
including ex-London permits
and travel passes.
And that by use of these documents...
my agents traveled freely
throughout Airstrip One...
encouraging insurrection
and organizing a massive counterplot...
to destroy the innermost faction
of the Oceanian leadership.
Furthermore...
I used my position of privilege
within the Inner Party...
to pervert and betray the truth at all times...
and to suggest, wherever possible,
that our traditional allies in Eastasia...
were in fact, our deadly enemies.
"April the 4th, 1984. "
In my position as Chief Factory Planner...
"I think... "
I stole military plans...
and, at vast financial profit,
sold them to the Eurasian leadership.
"... to the past...
"or to the future...
"to an age when thought is free.
"From the age of Big Brother...
"from the age of the Thought Police...
"from a dead man...
"greetings!"
Right, let's see which one of us
can touch his toes.
Right over from the hips,
brothers and sisters, please.
One, two.
Smith? 6079, Smith, W.?
Yes, you.
Bend lower.
You're not trying. Watch me.
There, brother. That's what I want.
Anyone under 45 is perfectly
capable of touching his toes.
I'm 39, and I've had four children.
We don't all have the privilege
of fighting in the front line.
Remember our boys on the Malabar Front.
Just think what they have to put up with.
Production of water-heaters
is up 1.5 percent.
Switchgear, 4.5 percent.
Electrical wiring, 10 percent.
Cigarettes, 18 percent.
Bricks, 3 percent.
Morning, Smith.
Parsons.
Heard the rumor?
No. Good news, is it?
I should say so, yes.
Choco rations going up.
Really?
Twenty-five grams next week.
Doubleplus good.
Speakwrites, 14 percent.
Vibra-aging castings, 9 percent.
By the way, Smith, I seem to have run out
of razor blades for some reason.
You wouldn't happen to have any spare,
would you?
I'm sorry, brother. I'm on the last one.
Bandages, 9 percent.
In 1983, Oceania's coal output...
reached 630 million tons.
In 1976, coal output was 605 million tons...
an increase of 4. 1 percent.
an increase of 17.6 percent.
I wanted to ask you if you've got
any razor blades?
I've tried all over the place.
I've been using the same one for six weeks.
...a staggering increase of 93.4 percent.
Did you see the prisoners
hanged yesterday?
No, I was working.
But I shall see it on the screens.
You'll pick up the gin on the way?
I'll have two.
Mark 5 submachine guns...
light machine guns...
Give me a gin.
recoil-operated heavy machine guns...
and 1.4 million lightweight...
spigot-launching,
anti-tank rocket projectors.
Food production is also up...
-How's the Newspeak Committee?
-Working overtime.
...butter, 2 percent, milk, 6 percent.
Plusbig waste is in adjectives.
Plusbig problem is timing the language
to scientific advance.
It's a beautiful thing,
the destruction of words.
You won't have seen the Dictionary,
It's that thick.
The 11th edition will be that thick.
So the Revolution will be complete
when the language is perfect.
The secret's to move from translation,
to direct thought, to automatic response.
No need for self-discipline.
Language coming from here, not from here.
Excuse me for intruding.
You're saying that we'll be rid of
the last vestiges of Goldsteinism...
when the language has been cleaned.
-I couldn't agree with you more, brother.
-Absolutely.
Praise be to our leader
and the Party workers!
Other munitions production figures
are as follows.
with 76-mm cannon.
Smith. Syme.
It's encouraging to think that by 2050...
not a single person will be able
to have a conversation like this.
Except the proles?
The proletariat don't count. They're animals.
See the hanging?
Missed it, myself.
Bloody committees.
Doubleplus good, this.
You know, I don't think
there's a single piece of meat in this stew.
Looks like meat. Tastes like meat.
It isn't meat at all.
Doubleplus good.
Not like it, Smith?
Yes, it's too rich for me.
Do you mind if I...
Brothers and sisters,
the battle for production has been won.
Completed returns
show that the standard of living...
has risen by no less than 20 percent
over the last year.
All over Oceania there've been spontaneous
demonstrations of Party workers...
voicing their gratitude and joy!
In honor of this massive overfulfillment
of the ninth three-year plan...
it's been announced that chocolate ration
is to be increased to 25 grams per week!
"If there is hope...
"it lies in the proles.
"If they could become conscious
of their own strength...
"they would have no need to conspire.
"History does not matter to them.
"It was three years ago...
"on a dark evening.
"Easy to slip the patrols.
"And I'd gone into the proletarian areas.
"There was no one else in the street,
and no telescreens.
"She said, '$2. '
"So I went with her.
"She had a young face...
"painted very thick.
"It was really the paint that appealed to me...
"the whiteness of it, like a mask...
"and the bright red lips. "
Come on.
"There were no preliminaries.
"Standing there, with the scent
of dead insects and cheap perfume...
"I went ahead and did it, just the same. "
Rutherford unperson.
Substitute Ogilvy.
Ogilvy bio, details as follows:
"War hero.
"Recently killed, Malabar Front.
"Today awarded posthumous
Order of Conspicuous Merit, Second Class. "
I accuse myself of sabotage...
embezzlement of Party funds...
sale of military secrets...
of being in the pay
of the Government of Eurasia...
of being a sexual pervert
and a thoughtcriminal.
I exploited my trusted position
at the Ministry of Peace...
to mislead our allies in Eastasia...
and also to corrupt youth by means
of seditious literature and drugs.
I am guilty on all counts.
I stand here...
a victim of the influence of...
"Under the spreading chestnut tree...
"I sold you...
"you sold me. "
And I ask only...
for you to accept...
my love of our leader.
Can I help you?
Anything special?
I was here before.
Razor blades.
You sold me the notebook.
Yes.
Please look around.
What's this?
It's a beautiful thing.
Over 100 years old.
Cost you $4.
There's another room upstairs
that you might like to see.
But there's not much in it.
Just a few things.
My woman's dead.
I'm just trying to sell the furniture.
It's a beautiful bed...
if you can get the bugs out of it.
Interested in old prints at all?
The frame's fixed to the wall,
but I daresay I could unscrew it.
How did this escape?
I know what it is.
It's the museum in the street
outside the Palace of Justice.
"'Oranges and lemons,'
say the bells of St. Clement's. "
What was that?
Something old.
War is peace!
Freedom is slavery!
Ignorance is strength!
A triumph of willpower over the orgasm.
At a rally of the Anti-Sex League
in Victory Square tonight...
held to celebrate a 50-percent decrease
in civil marriages...
over 10,000 Party women
took a vow of celibacy...
and pledged themselves as vessels
for the artificial insemination...
"I hate her.
"I should kill her before she denounces me.
"I have disliked her
from the first moment of seeing her. "
Sector 43...
Sector 44...
Sector 45...
Sector 46...
-Are you hurt?
-It's nothing.
It's my arm.
I'll be all right in a second.
Brother, could you...
Are you all right?
It's nothing.
I only gave my wrist a bit of a bang.
Thank you, brother.
Who is she?
All I know is that she works
in the corner section...
probably on the proletarian
novel-writing machines.
Mrs. Parsons? A spanner?
Under the sink, beside you.
Thank you, brother.
I wouldn't have had to bother you,
but my husband's out late.
Committees.
You know what us Parsons are like.
You're a thoughtcriminal.
They haven't been out much.
Thank you, brother.
Attention! Your attention, please!
A newsflash has this moment arrived
from the Malabar Front.
The forces of Oceania in South India
have won a glorious victory.
I am authorized to say
that the war against Eurasia...
is within measurable distance of its end.
have been killed or captured.
Can you hear me?
Yes.
Do you have an ex-London permit?
Yes.
Can you get Sunday afternoon off?
Yes.
Take this.
It's quite precise. I rely on you to destroy it.
Are you sure you can come?
Yes.
On your own, brother?
No, I'm joining the Vic Mans
community hiking group.
I was held up on urgent Minrec business.
Sing to the bravest on the sturdy fortress
Sing to the soldiers on the battlefields
Sing to the airmen in the burning azure
Sing to the farmers' rising yields
We are the children, builders of the future
And we the children swear to thee
Loyal devotion, fearless devotion
And to die with dignity
Sing to the faithful...
A daring and resourceful maneuver...
under the personal direction
of B.B. himself...
ensuring the total annihilation of
the Eurasian heavy-armored divisions...
Look.
It's a dream.
I want you.
Not here.
Come back to the woods, it's safer.
Have you done this before?
Of course.
Hundreds of times.
-With Party members?
-Yes.
Inner Party members?
Not with those bastards.
Though there's plenty who would.
Look, I hate purity.
I hate goodness.
I don't want virtue to exist anywhere.
I want everyone corrupt.
I ought to suit you, then.
I'm corrupt to the core.
Do you like doing this?
I don't mean just me.
I adore it.
Winston?
We shall meet in the place
where there is no darkness.
Adult literacy amongst the proletariat
has risen by 56 percent.
The proletarian infant mortality rate
has dropped by 12 percent.
Incidences of leukemia, tuberculosis,
and meningitis have dropped considerably.
Improved diet has been responsible
for a dramatic decrease in rickets.
Eye diseases show a steep drop.
So, too, do deaths
from pneumonia and smallpox.
The improvement in
sewerage and drainage systems...
has resulted in better health, overall.
State rodent operatives
report a 50-percent reduction...
in the number of vermin
in the central proletarian zones.
I just want to finish by saying a few words...
about the impact
of this imminent neurological breakthrough.
When the orgasm
has been finally eradicated...
the last remaining obstacle
to the psychological acceptance...
of the principles of Ingsoc,
as applied to artsem, will be overcome.
In other words, the unorthodox tendencies
towards ownlife...
which constantly threaten
the natural erosion of the family unit...
will no longer have
the biological support of the organism.
As we all know, the biological and
social stimulation of the family leads to...
private reflection, outside Party needs...
and to the establishment
of unorthodox loyalties...
which can only lead to thoughtcrime.
The introduction of artsem, combined
with the neutralization of the orgasm...
will effectively render obsolete the family...
until it becomes impossible
to conceptualize.
Thank you.
Excuse me, brother.
You dropped your ink pencil.
Thank you, sister.
A pincer movement has developed...
involving the floating fortresses
of the Eurasian 17th Fleet...
Not much.
Not much left at all, these days.
Walls.
Police don't like us much.
That room...
how much?
$4 a week.
Traitor!
Traitor! Criminal!
Big, Big, Big...
A vast military buildup
of armored divisions...
missiles and floating fortresses,
accompanied by a fourfold increase...
in the number of
radio-controlled rocket bombs...
directed at the most
densely populated areas of Airstrip One...
It is folly...
as though deliberately,
we move one step nearer the grave.
I can't understand why
she accepted the idea...
she, who is so careful.
Hello.
Let me show you what I've brought.
Look.
What is it?
Real sugar.
Not saccharin.
And I've got a loaf of bread,
proper white bread...
and jam.
A real tin of milk.
Look.
Coffee.
Real coffee.
Inner Party. Half a kilo.
How did you manage
to get ahold of all this?
There's nothing those bastards don't have.
Aren't you pleased?
Yes.
Of course.
Real tea.
There's been a lot of tea about lately.
They've captured India or something.
I want you.
I want you, too.
Wait.
Turn around, and don't look until I tell you.
Listen to that.
How can she make a song
written by a machine sound so beautiful?
You can turn around now.
-I...
-Winston...
Do you like me?
More than ever.
Was there ever a time
when this seemed ordinary?
Attention! Your attention, please!
A vast military buildup
has been reported in the Sahara Desert...
sectors 17 and 18 of the war zone.
"There is truth, and there is untruth. "
...have been sighted proceeding in convoy
in a northerly direction...
"Freedom...
"is the freedom to say
two plus two equals four.
"If that is granted...
"all else follows. "
That is the end of the announcement.
We'll rehab the war from a neutral zone,
remaking dust in interstate plusplan levels.
Intend ego 1980 level
in dust output by 48 percent.
Stop, end emission.
Re: Times, 31-10-81.
Brother Tillotson wins Mini chess.
Request photo. File follows.
Attention. Your attention, please.
Will all Outer Party members
of Ways and Means Committees...
please attend their local
community centers for discussions and...
"Under the spreading chestnut tree...
"I sold you, you sold me. "
The meetings begin at 20.:00 hours.
Smith?
I've been reading
your Newspeak articles in The Times.
Yes.
You write very elegantly.
That is not my own opinion.
I was recently talking to a friend of yours,
who is an expert.
His name has slipped my memory
for a moment.
What I wanted to say was, that there were
one or two unwords, only very recent.
Have you seen the 10th edition
of the Newspeak Dictionary?
No, we're still using
the 9th edition at Minrec.
A few advance copies
have been segregated. I have one myself.
You might be interested.
Yes.
There are some plus skillful
new developments.
Let me give you my address.
I'm usually at home in the evenings.
If not, my servant
will give you the dictionary.
"It has happened at last.
"The call has come.
"It seems that all my life...
"I've been waiting for it. "
...is to be named after
Sub-lieutenant Ogilvy...
hero of the State of Oceania...
recently awarded, posthumously,
the Order of Conspicuous Gallantry...
for his action
in the recent glorious victory...
over the forces of Eastasia
on the Malabar Front, in South India.
Half the water's boiled away.
What does the clock say?
It says 21:00 hours.
What time do they cut the light
in your flats?
At the hostel it's 23:00.
What is it?
I don't know.
A little chunk of history
that they've forgotten to alter.
Message from 100 years ago.
"'Oranges and lemons,'
say the bells of St. Clement's. "
"'You owe me three farthings,'
say the bells of St. Martin's. "
Who taught you that? What is it?
I don't know. I just know it.
You know, the only thing to do...
is to walk out of here before it's too late...
and never see one another again.
Yes.
Our luck can't last.
You're young...
you look normal, you're innocent.
You keep clear of people like me,
and you might stay alive.
What you do, I do.
I've thought it out.
I'm good at staying alive.
When shall we meet again?
Not for several weeks. It's not safe.
Give me half an hour.
I love you.
Julia...
Do you think the Resistance is real?
No.
None of it's real.
Steamer! Dead overhead! Get down!
...round the clock, plus a 153 sets
in eyes top a P.M.A. Willmer.
"Oceania is at war with Eastasia.
"Oceania has always been
at war with Eastasia.
"Eurasia is our ally.
Eurasia has always been our ally.
"Everything fades into mist.
"The past is erased, the erasure forgotten.
"A lie becomes truth
and then becomes a lie again. "
What is it?
I dreamt...
about my mother.
What, darling?
It was during the wars...
before the Party.
Winston!
I couldn't help myself.
I knew what I had done...
and I couldn't help myself.
When I went back, hours later...
my mother and sister were gone.
I never saw them again.
So it's not just staying alive.
It's staying human that's important.
What counts...
is that we don't betray each other.
If you mean confessing,
we're bound to do that.
Everybody does.
You can't help it.
I don't mean confessing.
Confessing isn't betrayal.
I mean feelings.
If they can make me change my feelings...
they can stop me from loving you.
That will be real betrayal.
They can't do that.
It's the one thing they can't do.
They can torture you...
and make you say anything.
But they can't make you believe it.
They can't get inside you.
They can't get to your heart.
I'm going to see O'Brien.
I know.
Outer Party Member 53922...
Hicks, Minirec, Proletarian Affairs Section.
Outer Party Member 22315...
Howard, Miniprod, Hospital Section.
Outer Party Member 947743...
Bolgar, Minitrue, Records Section.
Outer Party Member 5739,
Brady, Minitrue, Records Section.
Outer Party Member 984213...
Devereux, Minitrue, Records Section.
Outer Party member 9106...
Dawes, Minitrue, Porno Section.
Outer Party Member 38091...
Ware, Minitrue, Porno Section.
Outer Party Member 11792...
Bigland, Minitrue, News Section.
"Items one, comma, five, comma, seven,
approved fullwise. Stop.
"Suggestion contained item six doubleplus
ridiculous verging crimethink...
"Cancel, stop. End message. "
Outer Party Member 4392...
Rosenblum, Miniprod,
Light Industry Section.
Outer Party Member 66755...
Davis, Miniprod, Women's Section.
That concludes the list
of known agents of Goldstein...
actively engaged in the latest conspiracy...
Not much of this gets
to the Outer Party, I'm afraid.
To our leader.
...that our eternal allies in Eurasia
are turning against us.
More nests of conspirators
and saboteurs have been uncovered...
and further arrests are expected shortly.
You can...
Yes. We are allowed that privilege.
Some more of this?
It's called wine.
There are thoughtcriminals
who maintain the Resistance is not real.
Believe me, Winston...
it is very real.
Perhaps you are not familiar
with how it operates.
I'm attentive to the news.
Indeed.
Perhaps you imagine
a huge network of conspirators...
prepared to commit
any atrocity to demoralize...
and weaken the order of our society.
The reality is infinitely more subtle.
If Goldstein himself...
fell into the hands of the Thought Police,
he could not give them a list of his agents.
Such a list does not exist.
They're not an organization
in the sense we know.
Nothing holds it together but an idea.
There is no possibility of change
in their lifetime.
In the face of the Thought Police...
they cannot act collectively.
Individually, they cheat...
forge, blackmail, corrupt children...
spread disease and prostitution...
in the name of spreading knowledge
from generation to generation.
Until...
in a thousand years...
You may find this of interest.
Thank you.
...address a rally in Victory Square
at 21.:30 hours.
That is the end of the announcement.
Goodbye, brother.
They have attacked an unarmed village
with rocket bombs...
and murdered 4,000 defenseless, innocent...
and peaceful citizens of Oceania.
This is no longer war.
This is cold-blooded murder.
Until now, the war has been conducted
with honor...
and bravery...
with the ideals of truth and justice,
in the best traditions of mankind...
until this moment.
Brothers and sisters...
the endless catalogue of bestial atrocities...
which will inevitably ensue
from this appalling act...
must, can, and will be terminated.
The forces of darkness
and treasonable maggots...
who collaborate with them,
must, can, and will...
be wiped from the face of the earth.
We must crush them.
We must smash them.
We must stamp them out.
We, the people of Oceania...
...will not rest until a final victory
has been achieved.
Death to the eternal enemy of Oceania.
Death!
Brothers and sisters...
one week from now...
in this very square...
we shall,
as a demonstration of our resolve...
as a sure sign to those
who attempt to threaten...
our Party and our State...
we shall execute publicly...
the same number of Eastasian prisoners...
by hanging, drawing and quartering.
Big, Big, Big...
"In accordance to the principles
of Doublethink...
"it does not matter if the war is not real...
"or when it is, that victory is not possible.
"The war is not meant to be won.
It is meant to be continuous.
"The essential act of modern warfare...
"is the destruction of the produce
of human labor.
"A hierarchical society is only possible
on the basis of poverty and ignorance.
"In principle,
the war effort is always planned...
"to keep society on the brink of starvation.
"The war is waged by the ruling group
against its own subjects.
"And its object is not victory
over Eurasia or Eastasia...
"but to keep the very structure
of society intact. "
Julia?
Are you awake?
There is truth, and there is untruth.
To be in a minority of one
doesn't make you mad.
Julia, my love...
I understand how.
I don't understand why.
I'm hungry.
Let's make some more coffee.
The water's cold.
There's no oil in it.
That's strange. I thought it was full.
They say that time heals all things
They say you can always forget
But the smiles and the tears
across the years
they twist my heartstrings yet.
She's beautiful.
She's a meter across the hips. Easily.
It's her style of beauty.
The future is hers.
We are the dead.
We are the dead.
You are the dead.
Remain exactly where you are.
Make no move until you are ordered.
Now they can see us.
Now we can see you.
Clasp your hands behind your heads.
Stand out in the middle of the room.
Stand back-to-back.
Do not touch one another.
The house is surrounded.
The house is surrounded.
I suppose we may as well say goodbye.
You may as well say goodbye.
While we're on the subject...
"Here comes a candle to light you to bed.
"Here comes a chopper
to chop off your head. "
Pick that up.
Thought Police.
Parsons.
Keep away from me, Smith.
I'm an agent of Goldstein.
I didn't know it myself.
Thoughtcrime is so insidious.
It just creeps up on you.
My daughter found it out.
Very proud of her.
Very grateful I've been discovered
before it's too late.
They won't shoot me, will they, Smith?
I know I could be very useful
in a labor camp.
Room 101.
No.
Please, you don't have to take me there.
Why?
There's nothing I won't confess.
Nothing.
I've told you everything already.
What is it you want me to know?
Take him instead of me.
He's the thoughtcriminal. It's him you want.
They got you, too.
They got me a long time ago.
You knew this would happen, Winston.
Don't deceive yourself.
You've always known it.
The photos of you and the girl
will be recycled for proletarian use.
Do you know where you are, Winston?
I don't know.
I can guess.
In the Ministry of Love.
Do you know how long you've been here?
No.
Weeks?
Months?
Do you know why you're here?
Shall I tell you why we brought you here?
To cure you.
To make you sane.
That was 40.
You can see that the numbers
on this dial run up to 100.
Will you please remember
that, during our conversation?
I have it in my power
to inflict pain on you at any time...
and in whatever degree I choose.
You know perfectly well
what is the matter with you, Winston.
You've known it for years, though
you've fought against the knowledge.
You are mentally deranged.
You suffer from a defective memory.
You never tried to cure yourself of it,
because you did not choose to.
It was a small effort of will,
which you were not ready to make.
For example...
which power is Oceania at war with?
Eastasia.
Oceania is at war with Eastasia.
Eastasia.
Good.
And Oceania has always been at war
with Eastasia, has it not?
Tell me what you think you remember.
I remember...
that until only a week
before I was arrested...
we weren't at war with Eastasia at all.
It was Eurasia.
That lasted four years, I think.
Another example.
A serious delusion.
Photographs about which
you've had hallucinations...
which you believed you held in your hand.
They never existed.
Say what you were about to say, Winston.
They exist...
in memory.
I remember.
You remember.
I do not remember.
Only the disciplined mind
can see reality, Winston.
It needs an act of self-destruction...
an effort of the will.
Do you remember writing in your diary:
"Freedom is the freedom to say
two plus two equals four"?
Yes.
How many fingers am I holding up?
Four.
And if the Party says there are not four,
but five, then how many?
Five.
No.
That's no use. You're lying.
How many fingers, please?
Four. What else could I say?
Five, or anything you like.
Will you please stop it?
Stop the pain.
How can I help it?
How can I help
what I see in front of my eyes?
Two and two makes four.
Sometimes, Winston.
Sometimes they are five,
sometimes they are three.
Sometimes they are all of them at once.
Neither the past, nor the present,
nor the future...
exists in its own right.
Reality is in the human mind...
not in the individual mind...
which makes mistakes and soon perishes...
but in the mind of the Party...
which is collective and immortal.
-Again.
-No.
How many fingers, Winston?
Four.
Four, I suppose there are four.
I tried to see five.
I wish I could.
Which do you wish?
To persuade me that you can see five,
or really to see them?
Really to see them.
Again.
How many, Winston?
I don't know.
Better.
No one escapes, Winston.
There are no martyrs here.
All the confessions made here are true.
We do not destroy the heretic
because he resists us.
As long as he resists us,
we never destroy him.
We make him one of ourselves
before we kill him.
We make his brain perfect
before we blow it out.
And then...
when there is nothing left
but sorrow and love of Big Brother...
we shall lift you clean out of history.
We shall turn you into gas
and pour you into the stratosphere.
Nothing will remain of you.
Not a name in a register.
Not a memory in a living brain.
You will be annihilated in the past,
as well as in the future.
Three thousand.
This time it won't hurt you.
Before we bring this session to an end...
I want you to ask me your questions.
I want you to clear your mind.
Julia.
She betrayed you, Winston...
immediately, unreservedly.
All her rebellion, deceit,
folly, dirty-mindedness...
has been turned out of her.
Does Big Brother exist?
Of course.
The same way as me?
You do not exist.
You've not asked me the question
that is uppermost in your mind.
You know what is in Room 101.
Everyone knows what's in Room 101.
Now...
fix your eyes on mine.
What country is Oceania at war with?
I don't remember.
Oceania is at war with Eastasia.
Do you remember that now?
Yes.
How many fingers am I holding up?
Five.
You see, at least, that it is possible.
You've understood the reality of the past...
and of the present.
Now for the future.
A question:
"How does one man
assert power over another?"
By making him suffer.
Exactly. Obedience is not enough.
Power is inflicting pain and humiliation.
Otherwise, you cannot be sure.
Power is tearing human minds apart...
and putting them together again
in new shapes of your own choosing.
Power is not a means, it is an end.
In our world, there will only be triumph
and self-abasement.
Everything else, we shall destroy.
The past is forbidden. Why?
Because when we can cut man
from his own past...
then we can cut him from his family,
his children, other men.
There is no loyalty,
except loyalty to the Party.
There is no love, except love of Big Brother.
All competing pleasures, we will destroy.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine...
a boot stamping on a human face forever.
You are thinking
that my face is old and tired...
that while I talk of power...
I'm unable to prevent
the decay of my own body.
But the individual is only a cell.
And the weariness of the cell
is the vigor of the organism.
-You'll fail.
-Why?
It's impossible.
Hatred, the fear of life.
Why is hate less vital than love?
I don't know.
But somehow you'll fail.
Something will defeat you.
Life will defeat you.
We control life at all levels.
We create human nature.
Men are infinitely malleable.
Or perhaps you've returned to your old idea
that the proletarians will arise.
Put it out of your mind.
They are helpless animals.
Humanity is the body.
I don't care. In the end, they'll beat you.
Sooner or later, they'll tear you to pieces.
On what evidence?
Goldstein's book.
I wrote it.
Or, at least, I collaborated in writing it.
No book is individually produced,
as you know.
I just believe it.
I know you'll fail.
Something in this world...
some spirit you will never overcome...
What is it, this principle?
I don't know.
The spirit of man.
And do you consider yourself a man?
Yes.
If you are a man, you're the last man.
Your kind is extinct.
We are the inheritors.
Do you understand that you are alone?
You are outside history.
You unexist.
Get up.
Come here.
Look at you.
You're rotting away.
That is the last man.
If you are human, that is humanity.
It will not last forever.
You can escape from it
whenever you choose.
Everything depends on you.
You did it.
You reduced me to this.
No, Winston.
You reduced yourself to it.
When will you shoot me?
Might take a long time.
But don't give up hope.
Everyone is cured sooner or later.
And in the end...
we shall shoot you.
The law of gravity is nonsense.
No such law exists.
If I think I float...
and you think I float...
then it happens.
I love you.
You have the strength, Winston.
You have the whole Party.
You are the Party.
You're one of us, one of the chosen.
I love you.
I love you, too.
Julia, my love.
Get up.
Stand up straighter.
Look me in the face.
Tell me, Winston, and remember, no lies.
What are your true feelings
towards Big Brother?
-I hate him.
-You must love him.
It's not enough to obey him.
You must love him.
Room 101.
You asked me once, Winston,
what was in Room 101.
I told you that you knew, already.
Everyone knows.
The thing that is in Room 101...
is the worst thing in the world.
It goes beyond fear of pain or death.
It is unendurable,
and it varies from individual to individual.
It may be burial alive or castration...
or many other things.
In your case, it is rats.
No.
Please. What do you want me to do?
You will do what is required of you.
What? What is it?
How can I do it if I don't know what it is?
In the proletarian areas,
they will attack a baby...
and within five minutes, strip it to the bone.
They also attack the sick and dying.
They show astonishing intelligence
in knowing when a human being is helpless.
Please.
The mask fits over your head,
leaving no exit.
I press the first lever...
and the rats move into
the front compartment.
I press the second,
and the door of the cage will slide up.
These starving brutes
will shoot at you like bullets.
Have you ever seen a rat
leap through the air?
They will leap onto your face
and bore straight into it.
Sometimes they attack the eyes first.
Sometimes they burrow through the cheeks
and devour the tongue.
Tell me. What do you want?
No, please.
I love you.
Do it to her! Do it to Julia!
I don't care what you do to her,
but do it to her!
Tear her my face off!
Do it to Julia, not to me!
Do it to Julia!
Not me!
A vast military buildup has been reported
in the Sahara Desert...
in Sectors 17 and 18 of the war zones.
That is the end of the announcement.
Brother.
On the house.
Thank you for coming.
You are warned to stand by
for an important announcement at 15.:30.
This is news of
the gravest national consequence...
concerning the war with Eurasia.
Are you worried about the African front?
The news is disquieting in the extreme.
I've been worrying about it all day.
It's not just a question of losing Africa.
For the first time, the territory of Oceania
itself is threatened by invasion.
It's inconceivable.
It must have been possible
to outflank them in some way.
I have an instinct.
There's bad news on the way.
I told them all about you.
I'm only thankful they got me
before it was too late.
Yes, I told them about you, too.
Thoughtcrime...
sexcrime, all your treachery.
I have a meeting to go to.
We must meet again.
Yes.
We must meet again.
I accuse myself of the following crimes.:
I have seduced Party members
of both sexes...
I've been to the proletarian areas...
I deliberately contracted syphilis
in order to spread the disease...
to my wife and other Party members.
Together with other agents,
I have counterfeited banknotes...
wrecked industrial machinery,
polluted the water supply...
guided Eurasian rocket bombs
to targets on Airstrip One...
by means of coded radio signals.
I stand here, a victim of the influence
of Emmanuel Goldstein.
Guilty on all counts.
I'm glad I was caught.
I was mentally deranged.
Now I am cured.
I ask only for you to accept
my love of our leader.
I ask only to be shot
while my mind is still clean.
A glorious victory!
A vast, strategic maneuver to outflank...
the Eurasian Forces on the African front
has been successful.
Perfectly coordinated, it has resulted
in the utter rout of the Eurasian Army.
There have been nearly a million prisoners.
It has been an utter rout.
Waiter?
This immense victory brings the war
within measurable distance of its end.
Wonderful news.
I love you.