In an interview, Raoul Peck explains why he interspersed the writer’s story with footage of current events, including footage of President Donald Trump and his supporters.
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Jordan Peterson Doesn’t Understand George Orwell

Peterson often quotes 1984—but does he really get it? This breakdown exposes the gap between Orwell’s warning and Peterson’s rhetoric.
My two boys recently got new passports. The little books are gorgeously designed. On thick paper, drawings are etched of wheat fields and farmers, statues and monuments. Quotes from great Americans – ...
My two boys recently got new passports. The little books are gorgeously designed. On thick paper, drawings are etched of ...
My two boys recently got new passports. The little books are gorgeously designed. On thick paper, drawings are etched of wheat fields and farmers, statues and monuments. Quotes from great Americans — ...
After channelling the spirit of Rik Mayall for his Speakies-shortlisted performance, the Bunny Vs Monkey narrator explains why audiobooks bring families together.
We very much need to thoroughly and accurately curse the tree of greed that doesn’t produce good fruit for those in need ...
The current political climate in the world today has me thinking about the books of George Orwell, especially Nineteen Eighty ...
Two classic novels by George Orwell have been translated into Welsh for the first time. Animal Farm, a 1945 political allegory inspired by the Russian Revolution, is set in north-west Wales in the ...
August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Raoul Peck’s new documentary “Orwell: 2+2=5” reimagines George Orwell’s words for an age of alleged “fake news,” ...
The film is too interested in the brutality of totalitarianism to fully explore Orwell's great theme: the sinister unreality of it. Yet that’s not ultimately the reason “Nineteen Eighty-Four” remains ...