Orwell Rolls in His Grave

Orwell Rolls in His Grave is a comprehensive and pointed analysis of America’s controversial media–democracy dynamic. Filmmaker Robert Kane Pappas paints a portrait of American democracy in crisis at the hands of an increasingly powerful media complex.

The film draws heavily on the state of permanent, all-encompassing unreality depicted by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, describing how media interests have monopolised the free flow of information and, in doing so, offering a savage depiction of a political and informational system that is rotten to the core.

However, the film is not uncontroversial in its portrayal of heroes and villains. Orwell Rolls in His Grave serves as a haunting update to Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, arguing not only that truth is stranger than fiction, but that if any aspect of the novel has not yet come to life, it soon could.