Interview With "Orwell: 2+2=5" Filmmaker Raoul Peck
The Next Best Picture Podcast
The Next Best Picture Podcast
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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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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