Not sure if that’s what you mean by heavy but I recently watched 1984 and while the movie is good I found it kind of hard to watch. Possibly because a lot of the story and background information was only indirectly said or hinted at and you had to actually pay attention and think about what you saw.

I guess I’m just used to modern cinema where everything is very in your face

On the Clara 2E and newer readers you don’t even have to interact with the database anymore. You can plug in the reader using USB and edit a config file to enable Sideload mode which will remove the login screen and default home page and instead deposit you straight into the library menu.