Fri, Nov 07
|Honokaa People's Theatre
Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5
Peck charts the writer’s life in tandem with world-shattering events, focusing on when he was working on “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” which was published in 1949. A chillingly relevant examination of totalitarianism's enduring appeal and the societal conditions that enable it.
Time & Location
Nov 07, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Honokaa People's Theatre, 45-3574 Mamane St, Honokaa, HI 96727, USA
About the Event
Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 is a dense, urgent, and unapologetically blunt documentary that offers a chillingly relevant examination of totalitarianism's enduring appeal and the societal conditions that enable it.
From Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning director, Raoul Peck, Orwell is the definitive feature-length documentary on visionary author George Orwell, with the exclusive cooperation of the Orwell Estate. "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past...," wrote Orwell in his novel, 1984. Today, the "newspeak" of authoritarian rule is alive and well and in unexpected places, from the rise of AI Chatbot to the Russian propaganda machine, from the marketing webs of commercial metaverses to the political banning of books in the Southern United States. Peck's "Orwell" will use George Orwell's life, work and legacy as a maverick iconoclastic writer to jam the signals of the algorithms gone rogue which, in the name…