4th April, 2024: Senegal.
Right … it’s officially official.
It’s Thursday!
Which means … ?
That yesterday was Wednesday: a day I found that Audible are doing a new, audio, version of Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four.
And learnt that there was a recent, Russian, version: directed by Diana Ringo.
I have to admit, I did try watching that, last night.
But have to admit to stopping half way through.
Partly?
The thing was just a little too strange for my tastes: it’s versions of the Two-Minute-Hate, for example, was very different.
Granted: it’s a good looking thing.
But … ?
It’s strangeness, and the fact it owes its character names, and a couple of story points, to Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We*, was something I found both off-putting, and distracting.
Alongside that … ? I don’t know who translated the text from the original Russian, but the subtitles were … not good. I’m not familiar with Russian: but am familiar with Orwell’s original novel.
And … ? The acting was something I found rather stilted.
Combine that with the tiredness I was feeling from the pain killers I’m on … ?
Meant I gave up on Ringo’s 1984, half way through.
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