Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5

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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 Hagit O @RT84942852 5d 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 Ron A @RT56284347 Jun 9 A "Documentary" about history's foremost spokesperson against propaganda and authoritarian rule that manages to twist Orwell's own words into blatant propaganda. The Ministry of Truth worked overtime on this insidious abomination. Doubleplusbad See more Stephen R @Steve_R Jun 1 I believed that this would have been an interesting biography on Orwell. To put if bluntly it was akin to bait and switch. It was a case of the producers abusing Orwell's quote: "There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language." The producers turned the biography into an anti conservative diatribe, focusing a lot on maligning Trump. They used the quote: "war is peace" to malign Netanyahu, never mentioning the terrorism of Hamas, Hezbollah, or Iran. The producers projected positive views of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd. Black Lives Matter was a racist criminal extortion racket. Floyd was a criminal who died from a drug overdose. Finally there is the inevitable historical trend. Democratic socialism works for a short period of time before it degenerates. Orwell famously stated "We are all equal but some of us are more equal than others." The producers never reviewed cases were that happened. See more Read all reviews

Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5

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