1984 (DVD, 2003)

Excellent movie and story despite the similarities in todays society. One of the reasons for America moving away from being a free country to a heavily socialistic country is the growing ignorance of it's inhabitants. It's gone so far into socialism that the average American will claim that he/she doesn't want socialism, while at the same time they rely on a government program which really represents theft of someone to redistribute to someone else.
If you ask the average American what the underlying principle of socialism is, he/she will either try to look it up in an online dictionary or mouth something that's similar to "government owned", never addressing the question. The fact is that the underlying principle of socialism is force. That is what holds the ideology together as if it were up to you to "volunteer" up to half your income, or if you like, work twice as long in your life as you should have to because of the theft, you would never agree to such a thing as you would not willingly reduce your life, and the life of your Wife, Parents, Siblings, Children, Friends and other relatives to that of a slave. But you probably support either an obama or mcclain even though those politicians are doing precisely the kind of lying and theft that you claim you would not voluntarily support. So what needed to be done is dumb you down. Make you so ignorant that you A) cannot even define the differences in socialism and freedom, and B) make you think that you are free while in fact you work twice as long as you should have to in order to support the governments plans for you. Then of course you need to be "patriotic" and since you cannot define the differences between socialism and freedom, it's a pretty simple thing for the government funded schools to teach you what patriotism is. It's hardly patriotism but you think it is and that's all that matters.
Hence you'll see in this movie the confusion of language, ie: freedom is slavery, ignorance is bliss, war is peace, etc.
Another movie along similar lines but with more of an American twist to it, that I highly recommend is Harrison Bergeron.
Enjoy comrade and long live big brother!

The movie 1984 is a good adaptation of Orwell's book. Great acting, especially by Hurt, although it is highly recommended that one read the book first. I would have not had a very thorough understanding of the movie otherwise.