Dystopia Now! In ‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5,’ Director Raoul Peck Shows How ‘1984’ Author Foresaw Today’s Authoritarian Drift

‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: Angry Documentary Is as Much About Us (and Donald Trump) as About George Orwell

Cannes 2025: Raoul Peck's film is an artful balancing act that dips in and out of Orwell’s life and work and swings from history to art to the most current of events

‘Orwell 2 + 2 = 5’ Review: A Chilling Examination of How Much the Nightmare of ‘1984’ Has Come True

Raoul Peck's essay film about the creation of "1984" uses George Orwell's words and writings as a jumping-off point to chart the rise of modern fascism.

‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: Raoul Peck’s Dynamic Look at Big Brother and Other Tyrants

Raoul Peck’s documentary 'Orwell: 2+2=5' explores the life of George Orwell and the enduring significance of his most famous work, ‘1984.’

Dystopia Now! In ‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5,’ Director Raoul Peck Shows How ‘1984’ Author Foresaw Today’s Authoritarian Drift

“Special military operation.” “Department of Government Efficiency.” “Enhanced interrogation techniques.” “Alternative facts.” We live in a time when governments use lexical distortions to manipulate public opinion – the very thing author George Orwell captured so cogently in his dystopian novel 1984, where the futuristic regime adopts “Newspeak” and other authoritarian techniques to stamp out independent critical thinking. The time is ripe …

Raoul Peck's Dynamic George Orwell Doc

George Orwell himself has gone out and in of favor over the revisionist years, however the British creator’s searing insights into empire and energy and totalitarianism have by no means misplaced relevance. That’s notably true of his last work, the dystopian premonition 1984. Revealed 76 years in the past, the novel is the core of Raoul Peck’s documentary portrait of the author. With a dynamic mixture of biography and mental essence, and with th…

1984 And Brave New World Should Be Read In Tandem To Understand Today’s Troubled Times

By Emrah Atasoy, University of Warwick and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine Is there any past work of fiction that can help us make sense of today’s troubling trends? Taking into account the proliferation of references to obfuscating “Newspeak”, Big Brother-style leaders and impossible-to-circumvent surveillance systems in newspaper articles, this question cries out for a simple answer: “Yes – and that work is George Orwell…