Andy Serkis, the director of Angel Studios’s new Animal Farm adaptation, practically admits that it’s about whatever kind of authoritarianism you want it to be.

“The debate is the thing,” he told the crowd at an early screening of the film in Washington, D.C. “Ideally, it would be parents listening or the grandparents listening to their kids having watched it. That’s the goal. We want them to be the ones who have the voice because they are the ones who will inherit our very, very troubled and untrue world that we’re living in.”