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 ...
When I was growing up, the lessons of 1984 – the dystopian novel by George Orwell – were all thought to pertain to the Soviet Union. Big Brother was Josef Stalin – controlling the thoughts of his ...
The film is too interested in the brutality of totalitarianism to fully explore Orwell's great theme: the sinister unreality of it. Yet that’s not ultimately the reason “Nineteen Eighty-Four” remains ...
In the last months of his life, writer George Orwell used the final embers of his energy to complete a novel that would become a classic of 20 th century literature: 1984. More than 75 years after its ...
On January 8, 2021, Donald Trump Jr. took to X (then Twitter) to declare that his father’s suspension from the platform was a sign that “We are living in Orwell’s ‘1984.’ Free speech no longer exists ...
Filmmaker Raoul Peck uses George Orwell’s writings to weave together a biographical portrait of the author and a dispiriting picture of power and truth in the modern world in “Orwell: 2+2=5.” ...
Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...
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