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Dystopia Now! In ‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5,’ Director Raoul Peck Shows How ‘1984’ Author Foresaw Today’s Authoritarian Drift — Cannes
The George Orwell documentary 'Orwell: 2 + 2 + 5,' directed by Raoul Peck, shows how the '1984' novelist forecast today's increasing authoritarianism.
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. He was educated at Eton but instead of following the common path of his classmates to Oxford or Cambridge, he joined the British Imperial Service, working as a colonial police officer in Burma (present-day Myanmar). Peck was born in Haiti but as a child he and his family fled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to escape the dictatorial regime of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier, an authoritarian who enjoyed the support of many successive American governments.
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