Well, if all that sounds eerily familiar, a new film called 2+2=5 uses Orwell’s words over archive footage and recent news clips to show how much 1984 reveals about today’s world.

After the Oscar-winning I Am Not Your Negro (2017) used James Baldwin as a cipher to understand today’s race relations in the US, director Raoul Peck turns to another hallowed 20th century writer.

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At this point, it sometimes feels like a cliché or reductive to say that our modern world is like 1984, George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel released in 1949, or to say things have become ...