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Orwell: 2+2=5
“It’s dazzling and terrifying…” – Slate
“Orwell: 2+2=5 is a vital film.” Hollywood Reporter
“The filmmaker isn’t subtle, but then, neither was his subject, and the film’s points could hardly seem more prescient than they do in this moment.” – NPR
“Peck’s piercing nonfiction has previously given voice to the dead and the dismissed, but now uses one of West’s most acclaimed and quoted novelists to lay bare its persistent sins.” – AV Club
From Academy Award®-nominated and BAFTA-winning director Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro), Orwell is the definitive feature-length documentary on visionary author George Orwell, with the exclusive cooperation of the Orwell Estate.
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past…,” wrote Orwell in his novel, 1984. Today, the “newspeak” of authoritarian rule is alive and well and in unexpected places, from the rise of AI Chatbots to the Russian propaganda machine, from the marketing webs of commercial metaverses to the political banning of books in the Southern United States. Peck’s “Orwell” will use George Orwell’s life, work, and legacy as a maverick iconoclastic writer to jam the signals of the algorithms gone rogue, which, in the name of personal freedom, threaten to close our minds to a greater possibility.
