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Two Minute Hate Goldstein Essay

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Film opens with one of the most famous scenes called Two - Minute Hate. We see a mass of people watching the big screen about Goldstein, the video is there only to provoke people and fuel them with hate, brainwashing them every day. The video starts with classical music portraying the field of wheat, and women baking bread which represents some kind of home atmosphere, proud land with promising future. With its earth colours and meaning, wheat harvest stands as a symbol for prosperity, love, hope and spiritually we can see it as a symbol for religion. However, as the video proceeds it slowly shifts toward violent scenes portraying people in war, killing, hunting and showing the picture of notorious Goldstein, who is the enemy of The Party. At moment the picture of Goldstein appears on a screen, people start yelling, throwing shoes at the screen and raising hands in the air, forming the X sign. …show more content…

It could represent a shield, people trying to protect themselves from Goldstein and his evil acts. X sign could also stand as a symbol for protest and rejection. If we dig deeper what stands behind that arm gesture, we will come to discover that X is the symbol of Nimrod, he is the great-grandson of Noah and most interestingly he was the one disobeyed God. In Hebrew his name represents “rebel” and this connection is perfect for this scene. It is always interesting to see how far back some symbols go and what their original meaning truly represents. While Two – Minute Hate video is coming to an end, hundreds of people are standing like robots forming the X sign with their hands and calming down after all the yelling and shaking. For the massive public raves Radford and his team employed thousand of extras and filmed by night at Alexandra

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