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Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Orwell: 2+2=5' - Chilling and indispensable

Raoul Peck takes the words of George Orwell and connects the dots between the writer’s diary entries and present-day totalitarian regimes. The filmmaker signs one of the most urgent and essential documentaries of the 21st century.

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00:10When I sit down to write a book, I write it because there is some lie that I want to
00:16expose.
00:18Again, how many fingers?
00:20My starting point is always a feeling of injustice.
00:24The very concept of objective truth is fading out of this world.
00:29I'm going to sit down what I cannot say aloud to anyone.
00:34This prospect frightens me much more than bombs.
00:38Democracy, freedom, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.
00:48It's about cinema. Cinema is about emotion.
00:52And it's one of the tools that I use.
00:55I use everything, music, images, graphic, to make sure that you are not only in the presence of just thoughts,
01:05but also of emotion, of thinking, of exchanges, of collective community.
01:12When I started in cinema, even before, you know, it was like you couldn't mix any political ambition with art.
01:22You know, art was supposed to be something special, something pure.
01:27The same thing with entertainment.
01:30Everything became entertainment.
01:31Even news became entertainment.
01:34So, but I never believed that it's not because it's entertainment that you can't put, you know, more weight in
01:42terms of the content.
01:45And you will find a form to make it, you know, cinema in my case.
01:50And I always believed that for me, filmmaking is a political, I would say, I had always a political intention
02:02in making my films.
02:04Monetarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.
02:11Do you begin to see then what kind of world we are creating?
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