I've watched and found insightful some of his documentaries, but that was years ago, when I was relatively less "woken up" and generally more stoned (and easy to please).
When I think back on them now, I can't think of anything that really stands out beyond the one in which he talks about Bernays.
His films seem to get so convoluted, disjointed and meandering, and my guess is that's because he avoids and dodges so many large taboo topics, that actually would connect things together and be more coherent (consciously/sub-consciously, who knows).
Maybe that was because his work was always BBC sponsored and therefore was subject to Big Brother's approval. If this new one isn't BBC affiliated, then maybe that's interesting...
But really, I'd I'd need to smoke a fat joint to sit through this... his voice gives me flashbacks...
EDIT I'm super dumb... there's a Big "BBC Film" logo right at the beginning, I must have not looked at the first few seconds before now...
Sorry to be cycnical, but to me that stamp screams limited hangout.
Thanks for sharing this, it's good stuff.
[edit: I'm 20 minutes into it, and I take it back. The seed is there, but when the fruit flowers, it's more "conservatives bad" stuff. Heaven forbid a society doesn't want to be overrun by 3rd worlders.]
[2nd edit: by minute 50, the degradation of society is men's fault because women's feminism equals their freedom and men want to keep their power all for themselves, which is the same relationship as former Brit colonies, which also explains racism...The guy is creating grand narrative based on airy thinking]
Adam Curtis has a new film series out:
https://youtu.be/MHFrhIAj0ME
"Can't Get You Out Of My Head" (part 1)
I haven't watched it yet.
It's three parts and looks like he released it directly to youtube. It isn't even mentioned no his BBC blog page:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis
This seems odd.
I've watched and found insightful some of his documentaries, but that was years ago, when I was relatively less "woken up" and generally more stoned (and easy to please).
When I think back on them now, I can't think of anything that really stands out beyond the one in which he talks about Bernays.
His films seem to get so convoluted, disjointed and meandering, and my guess is that's because he avoids and dodges so many large taboo topics, that actually would connect things together and be more coherent (consciously/sub-consciously, who knows).
Maybe that was because his work was always BBC sponsored and therefore was subject to Big Brother's approval. If this new one isn't BBC affiliated, then maybe that's interesting...
But really, I'd I'd need to smoke a fat joint to sit through this... his voice gives me flashbacks...
EDIT I'm super dumb... there's a Big "BBC Film" logo right at the beginning, I must have not looked at the first few seconds before now...
Sorry to be cycnical, but to me that stamp screams limited hangout.
Century of self was his best imho
Thanks for sharing this, it's good stuff. [edit: I'm 20 minutes into it, and I take it back. The seed is there, but when the fruit flowers, it's more "conservatives bad" stuff. Heaven forbid a society doesn't want to be overrun by 3rd worlders.]
[2nd edit: by minute 50, the degradation of society is men's fault because women's feminism equals their freedom and men want to keep their power all for themselves, which is the same relationship as former Brit colonies, which also explains racism...The guy is creating grand narrative based on airy thinking]