In both books they were not allowed to feel love.
While I agree Brave New World was probably a more accurate prediction of the future, the book still left a bad taste in my mouth. The way Huxley treated women ranged from frustrating to disgusting, and he definitely did not write male characters in a comparable manner,
I definitely feel like I enjoyed 1984 far more as a book. The movie especially terrified me and left me emotionally dead afterwards.