George Orwell is so iconic that he has his own adjective, but his classic dystopian novel almost didn’t make it to completion.
“He’s trying to finish ‘1984,’ it’s the last year of his life, and he’s in and out of hospitals, sanatoriums. He doesn’t know if he will finish,” says filmmaker Raoul Peck.
That’s the struggle that anchors Peck’s latest documentary, “Orwell: 2+2=5,” as the British writer races against tuberculosis to publish his chilling vision of doublethink, thoughtcrimes and memory holes before his death at age 46.
