Hollywood Rewrites the Pigs’ Manifesto, Turning ‘Animal Farm’ Anti-Capitalist

Hollywood Rewrites the Pigs’ Manifesto, Turning ‘Animal Farm’ Anti-Capitalist

George Orwell did not write a children’s book. He wrote a warning — lean, merciless, and deliberately without comfort. When the final page of Animal Farm closes and the animals look through the farmhouse window to find they can no longer distinguish the pigs from the men, there is no rescue, no uprising, no redemption. The horror is the point. Orwell meant for the reader to sit in that discomfort, because the lesson history teaches is not that g…

Animal Farm, Without Orwell – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

The famous allegory for Stalinism that is Animal Farm is a classic for a reason. One of George Orwell’s most famous works, the story drives home a powerful but straightforward message about the dangers of revolution and how power corrupts. The new animated film of the same title by Andy Serki doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo. To sum up Animal Farm: a group of mistreated animals overthrow their drunken, neglectful owner and seize control of t…