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Adam Curtis -
HyperNormalisationWe live in a time of great uncertainty and confusion. Events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. Donald Trump, Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis, random bomb attacks. And those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed - they have no idea what to do.
This film is the epic story of how we got to this strange place. It explains not only why these chaotic events are happening - but also why we, and our politicians, cannot understand them.
It shows that what has happened is that all of us in the West - not just the politicians and the journalists and the experts, but we ourselves - have retreated into a simplified, and often completely fake version of the world. But because it is all around us we accept it as normal.
But there is another world outside. Forces that politicians tried to forget and bury forty years ago - that then festered and mutated - but which are now turning on us with a vengeful fury. Piercing though the wall of our fake world.- Took a while to get to the point for me. Quite a bit of repetition from his other docs. The Trump stuff seemed like a bit of an add on because he's popular now.HAYZ1LLLA
- I love his style though. He's very visually creative. Why was there about 25mins in total of walking round the woods in the dark footage though. Haha.HAYZ1LLLA
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