Animal Farm

             Although "Animal Farm" the book and Animal Farm the movie tell the same story, the content and overall presentations differ in many ways. The movie has taken me to enjoy and appreciate Orwells Allegory, for its great point of view and lessons. The characters in the movie were more realistic then their descriptions in the book. The book was hard to fallow and for that matter bored me. In the movie it was fun to watch. It laid out a better outlook to understand Orwell's comparison to the Russian Revolution and at the same time made it interesting to watch.
             The movie demonstrates how language can be used to control minds, and at the same time shows how peer pressure can promote you to do the wrong things. For example the pigs speeches and demands brainwashed the other animals to think and react on every word they say. The pigs would lie and do everything for there own benefit. While doing this they would bribe the other animals with television to keep their minds off of what they were really doing. All of this compares to the ways some people act now in the world today and have acted in the past. The movie helps you to understand this better.
             The movie allowed viewers to feel like they were in a scene, you could imagine or even intake the different emotions from results of watching the pig's cruelty and how it affected the other animals on the farm. When they took the pups away from away from Mollie you got to see the saddened look on her face. When the pigs told the animals they needed the food for brainpower, you could see the animals starve all because of the pig's greed. The book doesn't allow you to see the full affect like the movie does.
             In the book the lessons in life that Orwell is trying to teach us are more hidden. In the movie you could see it for yourself, and it laid out in front of your eyes. In the movie you got to see the farm crumble from bad judgment and evil schemes of the pigs. The ...

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