ORWELL: 2+2=5

To what extent do the words of the author of 1984 continue to resonate in today’s society? For a long time, we mistakenly figured that George Orwell’s dystopian prophecy had been proven wrong by the West’s transition to a meta-ideological world of reduced authority, where seemingly nothing appeared to be prohibited, and where totalitarianism (which inspired the great writer’s foresight) seemed like a thing of the past once and for all. But Orwell doesn’t settle for a painfully accurate ideological dissection of his own world – unexpectedly, we realize that his work ultimately unveils the hidden truths of our own. And Raoul Peck, one of the most acclaimed documentary filmmakers of our time, demonstrates – with directorial finesse – that our era is much more Orwellian than we thought, or than what we’d like to think. A masterful documentary about the disturbing relevance of a terrifyingly timeless work of art. ON-SITE 8/3 Olympion 22:45