Orwell: 2+2=5 (2025)

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Synopsis

Dir: Raoul Peck. Documentary. An account of the life of writer George Orwell, interwoven with narration from his works, set against the contrast of historical and current political developments.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of scatological slang, cursing, and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent references to war crimes, political violence, and life under dictatorships - little detail
• Infrequent depictions, and portrayals, of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence in a civil unrest context, some in torture context - little blood or detail; infrequent depictions of public execution by hanging in a historical context - some detail; infrequent depictions of corpses in a news reel context - little detail
• Infrequent breast nudity in a non-sexual context - some detail
• Infrequent depictions and portrayals of tobacco use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

• Post-truth and democracy
• Capitalism and control
• Intellectual freedom and social responsibility

Classification rationale

Rated PG for mature subject matter, smoking, and nudity

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