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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by markmark on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:47PM (#16524770)
"Orwell's latest book is a rollicking farmyard tale of pigs versus humans held back by the author's political virtue signaling"
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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by meri_dian on Monday March 05, 2018 @05:02PM (#16524884)
No, Orwell's book is a classic that happens to be about politics. It's not about Orwell's political message, it's about the way it was delivered, which indicates there are foundational artistic metrics we use to judge art.
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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by gamblor956 on Monday March 05, 2018 @07:01PM (#16525748)
All of Orwell's writing was about politics. Part of the point of it being farm animals was to convey that as a society we are little better than animals.
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