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Now playing in select theaters, Orwell: 2+2=5 is filmmaker Raoul Peck’s (I Am Not Your Negro) look at iconic author George Orwell. In collaboration with the Orwell Estate, Peck employ historical clips, Orwell’s diary, cinematic sequences and modern day footage to craft a portrait of the revered scribe who coined the terms “Big Brother” and “Newspeak.” Damian Lewis serves as Orwell’s voice in the documentary. Check out CinemAddicts co-host Bruce Purkey’s review below!
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“ The basic concept or the kind of the conceit of Orwell 2+2=5 is it is mostly voiceover from him (voiced by Damian Lewis),” said Bruce Purkey. “Lewis is reading basically Orwell’s words mostly from his journals and diary entries from the period when he’s writing 1984. So it isn’t like a bunch of excerpts. It’s from 1984 itself, but the ideas and stuff swirling around 1984. What was happening in that time period when he’s journaling and writing diary entries. Also during that era, he is basically convalescing on the island of Jura, Scotland.”
Check out Bruce Purkey’s Orwell 2+2=5 review:
