12 Most Hopeless Sci-Fi Movie Endings
7. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's most famous novel. It is also responsible for kickstarting one of the biggest reality franchises of all time, Big Brother. In 1984 the book was made into a movie, giving those who hadn't read the book a chance to check it out on the big screen.
The story takes place in an imagined future filled with mass surveillance and an overpowering force named Big Brother that watches your every move. We see this through the eyes of Winston Smith, a resident of what was once London and an employee of the Ministry of Truth who dabble in rewriting history and editing past newspaper articles. Winston secretly hopes for revolution believing the working class to be the ones who have the power. He then meets Julia, who also shares his sense of freedom, and the two embark on a journey of revolutionary hope and secret rendezvous.
As you would expect, it doesn't quite work out and two are squashed by Big Brother. Winston is then tortured and brainwashed which despairingly ends in his realization that he does love Big Brother, after all.
In the end, the rich and the more powerful always win so what's the point in even trying right? Sound familiar? Nineteen-Eighty-Four seems more relevant now than ever.