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The Inversion of ‘Animal Farm’
This film’s crimes are not merely its ideological smallness but also its sheer ugliness. (Angel Studios)
Andy Serkis’s new animated adaptation of George Orwell’s classic inverts the point of the book to score shallow political points. It’s also just a terrible film.
By Nicholas Clairmont
05.03.26 — Culture and Ideas
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George Orwell’s timeless classic Animal Farm, a “fairy story” aimed at young readers, has sold some 11 million copies worldwide since it was first published in 1945. Its allegorical subject, Soviet communism, is not subtle. After all, the book begins with a speech by a pig who stands in for Karl Marx and, after an egalitarian revolution by animals that …

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Nicholas Clairmont
Nicholas Clairmont is the international editor of The Free Press
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