This is greatly edited and produced video. A pleasure to watch and a great piece of art. There are several fascinating stories going through the movie deserving further research by viewers. Soundtrack is amazing too.
There are couple of things that put me off though:
The documentary sets kind of demotivating mood: everything is in vain, whatever you do is pointless. Thus comforting viewers into status quo.
Secondly, even though it looks like Adam criticizes common western narrative he still goes along: he mentions Navalny as just sort of a hero Putin's opponent, without digging into his roots as a nationalist who once compared Islamic fundamentalists to cockroaches in his pro-gun ownership video. Also, author criticizes the politicians in power for failing to do anything for poor people as though they really try to do anything except for pretending.
Also it's puzzling how Adam Curtis managed to cover war crimes and mass surveillance without ever mentioning Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
Thus 7 of 10.
There are couple of things that put me off though:
The documentary sets kind of demotivating mood: everything is in vain, whatever you do is pointless. Thus comforting viewers into status quo.
Secondly, even though it looks like Adam criticizes common western narrative he still goes along: he mentions Navalny as just sort of a hero Putin's opponent, without digging into his roots as a nationalist who once compared Islamic fundamentalists to cockroaches in his pro-gun ownership video. Also, author criticizes the politicians in power for failing to do anything for poor people as though they really try to do anything except for pretending.
Also it's puzzling how Adam Curtis managed to cover war crimes and mass surveillance without ever mentioning Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
Thus 7 of 10.