{"id":235398,"date":"2026-02-20T12:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/02\/20\/raoul-peck-documents-the-dystopian-warnings-from-1984-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:27:21","slug":"raoul-peck-documents-the-dystopian-warnings-from-1984-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/02\/20\/raoul-peck-documents-the-dystopian-warnings-from-1984-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Raoul Peck documents the dystopian warnings from &lsquo;1984&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Where many filmmakers might have made a conventional biopic about George Orwell, Raoul Peck chose instead to use the British author\u2019s own words to craft an urgent documentary \u2013 one that serves as a warning about the dangers of totalitarianism today. The Haitian director joins us to discuss his new film, \u201c2+2 = 5\u201d, which explores how fragile democracies can be in the face of \u201calternative facts,\u201d mass surveillance and media monopolies. Peck\u00a0explains how Orwell\u2019s warnings are playing out across the world\u00a0\u2013 and why the resilience of civil society may be our only hope.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where many filmmakers might have made a conventional biopic about George Orwell, Raoul Peck chose instead to use the British author\u2019s own words to craft an urgent documentary \u2013 one that serves as a warning about the dangers of totalitarianism today. The Haitian director joins us to discuss his new film, \u201c2+2 = 5\u201d, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-235398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}