Nicolas Rapold, who helped organise the Lincoln Centre screening, said he expects at least 100 people to attend each of the three free screenings at the venue. "We think it makes a statement, going to see it again, and remind ourselves what happens when you slide off a slippery slope," Fliegner said. states on Tuesday were arranged to "take a stand for our most basic values: freedom of speech, respect for our fellow human beings, and the simple truth that there are no such things as 'alternative facts.'"Īt a packed afternoon screening of 1984 held at the Film Society at Lincoln Centre in Manhattan, New York resident Laura Fliegner was in attendance with her husband. The parallel to the current US president, who has attacked free press and called the media ” the enemy of the American people,” has resonated with a substantial number of readers.Īt time of writing, 123 theaters in 39 American states, and three in Canada, are planning to screen the film.Organisers the United State of Cinema said the screenings across 44 U.S. In 1984 this leads to ” double speak,” where citizens hold two conflicting facts in their minds simultaneously, and wind up lazily accepting what they’re told.
The novel’s totalitarian government employs a similar strategy, systematically erasing history by presenting completely different facts and events. In the last month, the 1949 dystopian classic has become a bestseller again in the US, primarily for its association with the defense of “alternative facts” in the current era by Kellyanne Conway, adviser to US president Donald Trump. “The endeavor encourages theaters to take a stand for our most basic values: freedom of speech, respect for our fellow human beings, and the simple truth that there are no such things as ‘alternative facts,'” the organizers, who call themselves the United State of Cinema, write on their site.
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