The Winstons
September 22nd, 2007 2 comments link to (permalink) posted by david
59 min 28 sec Sep 18, 2007
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I don’t agree with the simplistic conclusions of this nevertheless well researched documentary which looks at Winston Churchill, and Winston Smith’s creator, George Orwell.
The conclusion is that for all their differences, Orwell and Churchill knew that sometimes you had to fight. But I would argue that Churchill enjoyed it. Orwell was complex, Churchill, simple, patriotic, jingoistic, the type of person that sent in troops to shoot poor people – in his own country.
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Ryan : Sep 24, 2007 at 1:34 am
Well, you’re clearly not biased, are you?
Churchill was a brain-damaged monster, but he was most definitely not a simple one. He’s a fascinating personality.
admin : Sep 24, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Yeah, sorry I’m just being deliberately provocative. Although I do think that Orwell is the more complicated of the two, in the sense that he is almost impossible to pigeon hole.
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