Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5

Audience Reviews

View More

Gregg Y Oct 18 Informative and visually captivating See more RG Oct 13 Very intense and very thoughtful. Agreed with much of it, but its so overtly one-sided that detracts a bit from its credibility. Lots of horrors that humans inflict upon one another shown, but no reference to 9/11 or the October 7, 2023 assault by Hamas. See more Chris R @christr77 Aug 30 As a huge fan of Orwell and his writing, including 1984 and Animal Farm, I can say without any doubt that this is one of the worst interpretations of his work I've seen. The film is all over the place, and it feels less like the work of a serious, unbiased filmmaker than an indulgent piece made by a sycophant. Essentially, the entire film tries to paint every bad thing happening in the world today as "Orwellian," and it makes a big stretch casting Donald Trump and the more than half the country who voted for him as Orwell's masses. That framing alone exposes the bias of this sorry excuse for a film. The same argument could just as easily be made about the left. The scripted, staged speeches from a visibly diminished Biden, Harris being handed the nomination with no primary votes, and plenty more. The modern left pushes plenty of things that are simply ridiculous, like redefining what a woman or a man is, which is itself the exact kind of "2+2=5" nonsense Orwell warned about. See more Kyle M @RT77296778 Aug 19 A documentary isn’t meant to just profile a well-known author but mainly examining his prophetic outlook, analyzing how today’s political incidents parallels to his speculative literature that put general power to question. It progressively grips your attention with disturbances toward repetitive history, which narrows down to corporate and political leaderships that are fueled by self-interest rather than the people being looked after, arguably devolving mankind when mismanagement happens over loss of meaning or plain idiocracy as demonstrated. While it could’ve gone deeper in the sensed psychoanalysis that needed to dissect the actions, but the constrained framework between Orwell’s notes and comprehensible research boost this timely thought-provoking, neutral documentary as an essential watch per urgency and positional hope to be part of the visual algorithm in seeking to prevent and re-examine the global direction. (B+) See more Hagit O @RT84942852 Jul 26 Orwell Would Have Opposed This Film. He would have recognized exactly what he warned against: the selective use of truth, the erasure of context, and the weaponization of his own work for political messaging. 2+2=5 is not a film about Orwell—it is a film that uses Orwell to promote a contemporary political narrative. The irony is that while it warns about the manipulation of truth, it engages in it itself See more Anne C @RT98797131 Jun 9 One-sided, partisan view with provoking visuals and little context to them. Fails to cover the faults of political leaders from both sides and so fails to make a valuable point. See more Read all reviews

Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5

My Rating

Read More Read Less WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW POST RATING