Apple’s 1984 has proven timeless in its visual appeal. The striking use of color and lack thereof, does a beautiful job of differentiating the oppressors and the oppressed in cold grayish blues from the courageous heroin, raging against the system, in vivid red and white. The ability of the establishing shots and close ups to capture a dystopian world and its sickly looking population, ranting tyrant, and technicolored heroin, appealed to the viewers’ instinctive interest in the human factor when it first aired and continues to resonate with me more than thirty years later. While the multi-colored Apple logo set against a black background is simple, it is a powerful final visual, made memorable by continuing in the same vein of high contrast
