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Having failed to convince people that Donald Trump is Hitler, will leftists now try to persuade people that Mr. Trump is worse than Stalin? The question arises as a classic critique of Soviet communism is headed to the big screen with a controversial retelling. George Orwell was the pen name of a leftist who was mugged by the hideous reality of the Soviet Union. In 1945 he published “Animal Farm,” an allegory of Stalinist Russia, to alert the world to the oppressive nature of communist tyranny. Next year a new animated film version will arrive in U.S. movie theaters, but filmgoers may have a
very hard time getting Mr. Orwell’s point. In the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper Janet Eastham reports: The final image in George Orwell’s novella Animal Farm is bleak and unforgettable: as the pigs and farmers drunkenly play cards around the dining-room table, the watching animals realise their porcine liberators have become indistinguishable from the human oppressors they replaced. The moment exposes the lie at the heart of the Marxist promise of utopian equality. Yet a new animated adaptation of Animal Farm, directed by Andy Serkis, offers a strikingly different take…
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