The life and career of George Orwell and how his political observations are still relevant in the present day, particularly the lessons from his novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” The documentary “Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5” (2025, 120 min) is a dense, urgent, and unapologetically blunt documentary that offers a chillingly relevant examination of totalitarianism’s enduring appeal and the societal conditions that enable it.