I'm joining the challenge now and I hope I'm allowed to enter the few media I've consumed this year. I basically stopped reading fiction for pleasure when I became an adult, but I'm trying to get back into it now. Reading books is a huge time commitment, and when I do I choose nonfiction. More commonly, I will read articles or relevant parts of nonfiction books. I remember Flowers for Algernon being my favorite childhood book.
MOVIES
The Lego Move ★★★★★
KUMARE ★★★★
American Psycho ★★★½
The Running Man ★★★½
The King of Kong ★★★★
Grand Budapest Hotel ★★★★★
Noah ★★★½
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 ★★★
BOOKS
Double Down ★★★½
Game Change ★★★
How to Win Friends and Influence People ★½
Hitchhiker's Guide to The Universe ★
It's an extremely important novel that is also the most misquoted and misrepresented. I'd go as far to make the generalization that most people who reference it haven't even read it.
North Korea is probably the best real world example of the 1984 universe. This world also existed in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Its a novel that worked well for its time.
However, I find the important warnings to be more subtle. The attack on and twisting of language is alive and well today. I would also say the media acts as a 4th branch of government. I don't know how far you are into it so I won't spoil anything.
I'm not sure that Orwell meant this as a warning but rather a nightmare, its a very good political thriller.
I find Fahrenheit 451 to be much closer of a warning to what our society is headed towards.
I was just talking with my friend and I said exactly the bolded. I'm not too into it yet, but I'll finish it since it's a classic. I don't have Farenheit 451, but I enjoyed The Illustrated Man as a kid, so I might give it a go. I think I have Brave New World on the shelf.