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IanB

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Adam Curtis - "Oh Dear"

Jan 14, 2015, 14:21

Adam Curtis is so great.

I wish people still made singles that reflect our fragmented world as perfectly as this little film does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkRm58szFd8

"all the power in the hands" etc

EDIT and this is on the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSezzirJs_k

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Markoid

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Jan 14, 2015, 15:17

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Sin Agog

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Jan 14, 2015, 17:09

Still not sure how well his mini-docs mesh with the Screenwipe format, but props to Brooker for putting them in there anyway. Curtis' blog, in which he uses his access to a trillion hours of BBC archival footage to show our history like we seldom see it, is a Godsend. I had no idea that we pre-empted Hitler's ubermensch by some decades when England created Iraq until I saw this particular entry. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/bodybuilding_and_nation-buildi

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Moon Cat

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Jan 15, 2015, 15:13

I concur. Stuff that should be seen!

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tjj

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Edited Jan 23, 2015, 22:58

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Jan 23, 2015, 14:15

IanB wrote:

Adam Curtis is so great.

I wish people still made singles that reflect our fragmented world as perfectly as this little film does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkRm58szFd8

Just watched this, thank you - the narrative near the end of the film talks about the "strange mood of out times where nothing really makes any coherent sense" chimed a bell with me.

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