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The Next Best Picture Podcast

Interview With "Orwell: 2+2=5" Filmmaker Raoul Peck

The Next Best Picture Podcast

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2542 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

"Orwell: 2+2=5" is a documentary film, directed and produced by Raoul Peck. It follows the life and career of George Orwell, examining how his political observations remain relevant in the present day, particularly the lessons from his novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Damian Lewis narrates the film as Orwell. The film premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Premiere section, where it received positive reviews and was nominated for the L'Œil d'Or. Peck was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work and experience on making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will be released in theaters on October 3rd by NEON. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director and writer for Warwell.

0:06.4

2 plus 2 equals 5.

0:08.4

Raul Pack.

0:10.8

When I sit down to write a book, I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose.

0:18.4

Again, how many fingers?

0:20.4

My starting point is always a feeling of injustice.

0:28.6

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of this world.

0:33.6

I'm going to set down what I dare not say aloud to anyone.

0:38.3

This prospect frightens me much more than bombs.

0:46.3

The words democracy, freedom, justice have each of them several different meanings,

0:53.3

which cannot be reconciled with one another

0:56.9

all we want to welcome to the next best picture podcast where i'm being joined right now by the director

1:02.1

for orwell two plus two equals five not four i added that little bit on the end there raoul pack

1:09.3

everyone thank you so much for being here, Raul.

1:12.0

Thank you for inviting me.

1:13.9

And thank you very much for scaring the ever-living shit out of me with this movie.

1:19.8

I'm so sorry.

1:21.9

But it's unfortunately the reality.

1:24.3

And we are living very weird time. And nobody would have expect to leave that in the

1:31.7

United States. It's not even just the United States, though. I think you do a good job with this

1:36.2

documentary of showing how this is something that's happening all over the world. And the thing I

1:41.4

keep coming back to time and time again is we're always telling each other as a species, as common men and women who are fighting for peace and survival that we should not let history repeat itself.

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