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‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5’ Review: Raoul’s Peck’s Vital Film Shows How We’re Living In A ‘1984’-Style Dystopia
'Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5' review: director Raoul Peck shows how we're living in Orwellian times, where Trump and other autocrats punish free thought.
Trump is unleashing thought police – e.g. the order directing the Smithsonian Institution to “remove improper ideology” from national museums – to such a degree that it seems ripped from the pages of Orwell’s novel. Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, Israeli P.M. Banjamin Netanyahu, France’s Marine Le Pen, Hungarian strongman Victor Orbán (a darling of the American right), Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni, the grinning Nigel Farrage, head of the UK. But that visual motif might just as well signify the unhealthy state of democracies around the world, where autocrats have infected the bloodstream of the body politic with despicable poisons as they assert every greater control over the minds and thoughts of their subjects.
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