Although this adaptation of the classic Orwell satire is extremely clever, it might have rendered better as a cartoon, but as that had already been done, someone decided to give it an original twist. This 1999 version follows the script fairly faithfully, although at the end, after seeing the transformation of pig into man, it appends a nod to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, which as he died in 1950, Orwell did not live to see and would probably not have predicted had he lived another decade.
The film has more humour than the book - cynicism aside. The original score, largely by Richard Harvey, is thematic.
The film has more humour than the book - cynicism aside. The original score, largely by Richard Harvey, is thematic.