While, the relationship between Winston and Julia in the film is used to show how totalitarian government can and will triumph in any situation. Winston and Julia are both very strong-minded people, and that is important to their relationship and the point Orwell is trying to make. For very different reasons, both Winston and Julia desperately want to continue their relationship with each other. In the meeting with O’Brien, the couple says they will do anything they have to, with the exception of betraying each other. This act of commitment could be seen as an act of love, it is far from it. Winston does not want to betray Julia because he considers their sexual relationship a political act against Big Brother, and more than anything else he wants to defy the government. Julia does not want to betray Winston because she enjoys rebellion. Julia loves to do anything she is not supposed to like wearing makeup, eating chocolate, and partaking in a sexual relationship. Betraying Winston and giving up the physical relationship between them would take the enjoyable sense away from Julia, and probably not be worthwhile for her. “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship”. Winston and Julia finally giving in and betraying each other shows the power a totalitarian government has to strip even the most strong-willed people of the desires they long for the most, and shape them into the perfect citizens they want them to be. The breaking of the glass paperweight is symbolic of the way Big Brother will completely break apart the relationship between the two.
The Junior Anti-Sex League is one of the propaganda organizations used to control desire and teach sexual orthodoxy, in which was mentioned in the film. The Party's sexual puritanism is due to the fact that "the sex instinct creates a world of its own" and is therefore out of the Party's control and must be tortured, abolished and destroyed; "The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. ”We shall abolish the orgasm". The sex instinct is dangerous to the Party and makes a "direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy". Sex is an act of outright uprising, as all enjoyable sex must be in a society where the act is supposed to be free of pleasure. In this sense Winston's affair with Julia is a political act against the Party, which is part of the attraction. Perhaps the greatest crime they commit is declaring love for someone as an individual, someone who is separate from the Party.
Therefore, even though Winston and Julia say “I love you” to each other, their sexual relationship is pretty much affected be the political act that surrounds the wholly piece of drama as a novel and a film, therefore it is not an act of love. Winston fully hates Big Brother and desires to rebel any way he can. Because Big Brother does not allow anyone to have sex or even genuinely care for another, Winston has sex with Julia in defiance. Winston’s actions are fuelled by his hatred for Big Brother. Although Julia also has sex as an act of rebellion, her actions are spurred by her own selfishness. Julia wants to live freely and do as she desires. She only hates the party because it prevents her from doing so.
When Winston and Julia see each other at the end of the novel, it becomes clear that they never truly loved each other. Winston sees Julia and is repulsed by the thought of sex with her. Julia no longer has any interest in a relationship with Winston either. However, both Winston and Julia now share a love for the party. Their feelings of love are replaced by greater and purer feelings - love for Party and Big Brother and that was the greatest victory Party could achieve. “I Love Big Brother! “, happily said Winston. This again shows the power a totalitarian government has to completely control the thoughts, feelings, and actions of every citizen as an individual.
I believe that some scenes were changed in the translation of the novel and film versions of 1984. I feel that as a whole, the film did quite a great job in capturing the atmosphere and fear presented in the novel. What I especially enjoyed was the exact translation of dialogue between the film and novel. The film version effectively conveys the despair and pure hopelessness of Oceania from the novel version. I believe that the viewer can feel how depressing Winston’s life really is through the movie version of 1984. The torture scenes in the film were very true to the book, successfully portraying the horror and dread which is so prevailing in the novel. I especially enjoyed how Room 101 was done in the film, as it manages to take a fear that not everyone shares (rats) and makes the viewer sense the same terror which Winston suffers.
On the other hand, I believe that the film version did not present Orwell’s original intent through some variations in events from the book. While Winston is clearly presented as truly loving Big Brother at the conclusion of the novel,” He who controls the past controls the future”, “If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them”, and with many other quotes. It is unclear whether Winston is claiming his love for Julia or Big Brother during the film. The fact that Winston wrote only “2 + 2 =,” not “2 + 2 = 5,” leaving the result as whatever the government and “Big Brother” wants it to be. In this regard, Orwell’s true meaning is lost or translated into the way Radford presents his interpretation of the novel. Orwell’s intent was to show audiences that the Party makes sure nobody dies a martyr within Oceania, but through the film version’s refusal to embrace idea is disappointing in that it does not portray Winston as truly loving Big Brother.