‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5’ Review: Raoul’s Peck’s Vital Film Shows How We’re Living In A ‘1984’-Style Dystopia

When I was growing up, the lessons of George Orwell’s Dystopian novel 1984 were thought to pertain to the Soviet Union. Big Brother was Josef Stalin – controlling the thoughts of his people, punishing dissenters. If that had been correct, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and freeing of its similarly totalitarian satellite regimes would […]