Author George Orwell published his novel 1984 more than 75 years ago, but what he wrote in that book about life in a strangulating autocracy could hardly be timelier. After all, are we not in a moment when supporting diversity, equity and inclusion has been turned into a “thoughtcrime”? Or when we are told the insurrection of January 6 was not as an assault on law, order and democracy but a “day of love”?

Raoul Peck explores the late writer and his most famous work in his new documentary Orwell: 2+2=5 , which opens in theaters on Friday through Neon. The Oscar-nominated director joins the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to discuss his film and how Orwell’s experience fighting alongside the Loyalists (anti-fascists) in the Spanish Civil War taught him to be wary o

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