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There's a scene with trucks:

"A long line of trucks, with wooden-faced guards armed with sub-machine guns standing upright in each corner, was passing slowly down the street. In the trucks little yellow men in shabby greenish uniforms were squatting, jammed close together. Their sad, Mongolian faces gazed out over the sides of the trucks utterly incurious. Occasionally when a truck jolted there was a clank-clank of metal: all the prisoners were wearing leg-irons. Truck-load after truck-load of the sad faces passed."

The reason there are no private cars in Orwell's dystopia is the same reason there are none in North Korea, for the same mix of ideological and economic factors.




The scene with the trucks and PoWs made it into the 1956 version of the film, see relevant clip (or the whole movie if interested) at the following link:

https://youtu.be/fpGThhWTW2E?t=1896


I guess I didn't notice that passage so much. It is still interesting, as trucks seem to be used only for the Party's needs


Everything (deep fears, children, the truth etc.) was used only for the party’s needs!




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