The Doc Club: ‘Orwell 2+2=5’ Followed by Socializing & Discussn

Hosted by the Consul of the Toronto Film Lovers Group

We are afraid that you cannot join, because the Consuls have limited access to this Activity Group.

If you would like to explore other InterNations Activities in your Local Community, please have a look at this overview page.

Starts today at 17:15

Sun 30 Nov 17:15 - 21:30

Join InterNations now

Trailer: Protected content

“The boldest documentary anyone could make right now” – Time Magazine

“A sobering reminder of what’s at stake in this technology-defined age of doublethink and thoughtcrime” – The Hollywood Reporter

In Orwell: 2+2=5, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) surveys the writer’s final years to understand how a man shaped by poverty, imperialism, and war authored a warning we’ve yet to heed.

Peck’s film is neither hagiography nor a traditional biography: through a powerful assemblage of archival footage, contemporary media, and literary narration (voiced by Damian Lewis), Orwell’s work resonates as prescient commentary on our own paradoxical present.

Drawing from Orwell’s full body of work—from Burmese Days to Down and Out in Paris and London—Peck shows how language becomes ideology, fiction becomes prophecy, and a dying writer’s final manuscript might be the most urgent mirror of our time.

For those interested, we will meet afterwards at Protected content