I did figure they used that year specifically cuz of the novel 1984

you ought to expand on what you were thinking tho

director patty Jenkins might be cool and trying to wake people. get some young kids to read that.

"Jenkins was born July 24, 1971,[3] in Victorville, California,[4] to William T. Jenkins, an Air Force captain and fighter pilot who earned a Silver Star in the Vietnam War, and Emily Roth, who worked in San Francisco as an environmental scientist.[5] She has an older sister, Elaine Roth.[4]

Her father died when she was 7 years old during a NATO mock dogfight in the ocean at the age of 31 "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Jenkins

she might be mad about her dad being murdered cuz he knew too much about something, probably not though because she wrongly supports the UN, and why would warner brothers let her put subversive stuff in a big budget movie, it will probably be anti Russia during the cold war of the 80s.