Movies sometimes beat the books

In high-school I read 1984 by George Orwell and then later watched the movie for extra credit. The book was very interesting about a future distopia with Big Brother always watching. The laws were so strict that the government actually monitored and restricted thought through a police like force called the thought police. In the book there a lot about how Winston Smith the protagonist goes from being just another citizen in this time to rebelling against the thought police. The movie was not as good because it doesn't portray the same level of intensity that Big Brother is watching and because it does not talk about Winston's relationship with this girl he meets as much as the book. THe movie may have done this because they only have a certain amount of time to cover everything. Also in the book you know what Winston is thinking where in the movie the audience only knows what he says. This changes how the thought police are portrayed as a group.