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i like these films. i’ve watched 3 so far the lack of narration helps imo. could be because his narration was starting to become a parody of itself - maybe he wanted people to focus more on the images than his voice and thesis? is there really that much reuse? i watched all of his movies in the past year and i don’t recognize more than 5-10%
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:what was the reason people didn’t like his last movie? I didn’t see it i liked it
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Oct 24, 2022 01:48
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The Atomic Man-Boy posted:He finds a lot of interesting stuff but lacks the tools to analyze it. So an Adam Curtis movie sans his narration goes a lot further, IMO. Yes - his best material looks at what life is like for average people during these huge upheavals. he’s better at capturing that feeling than analyzing why things happened. The chechnyan dudes doing their folk dances in episode 4 ruled. Just love all these cuties doing their silly dances with big mustaches
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Oct 24, 2022 12:26
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Carmant posted:I want to marry the girl who stabbed her husband so much of this footage makes me wonder "why was somebody filming this? were they making a documentary? can i see it?" i want to know the backstory behind everything
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Oct 24, 2022 17:10
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the horse in episode 5 is so cool
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Oct 25, 2022 02:34
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Tempora Mutantur posted:bit of a tangent but where does adam curtis "formally" upload his stuff? BBC iPlayer, i believe
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Oct 25, 2022 19:01
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here's an interview where he talks more explicitly about his thoughts on the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663vLIYBcpI
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Oct 25, 2022 20:01
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Tempora Mutantur posted:would make me think he'd at least say "drat we really need to figure out how to get people to want to be a part of collective actions again such as the way the now-destroyed-and-barely-coming-back unions did," but instead he says something along the lines of "individuality is here forever and fucks us forever... maybe! maybe not!" huh, this isn't my reading of it at all. he blames all of the problems on concentrated capital, and glorifies collective protests movements (the part in episode 6 with the mothers going to the front line for example). he doesn't come out and say "and that's why we need to go back to communism!" because he's not interested in writing political polemics, but he certainly makes the communist party regime look better than the capitalist one (IMO). and yeltsin is portrayed as a villain. i guess it's the nihilism that's the problem? which, fair, but i might feel the same way if i've been looking at all this history and seen it fail so many times
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Oct 26, 2022 18:07
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Tempora Mutantur posted:maybe it's because I just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrNQeYYvabg which details exactly what mechanisms resulted in the fall of the USSR which aligns with anecdotes of people I grew up with and the narratives I heard as a kid that I look back on very critically to understand my own framing of things, but I think everything curtis says is framed to make the viewer ask questions, but at the wrong "level"/the wrong questions, based on: i'm having some trouble following the rest of your post, will come back to it, but just wanted to ask how much of the show you've watched so far? i assume this is based on just that interview? because in the show he talks about the sudden price control removal explicitly, and how the economist dude who implemented it, (can't remember his name) was following the advice of American advisors. he definitely plays up how much the US loved this development, showing the Clintons and the english queen visiting and stuff
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finished the series tonight. really good. i like “thanks to the hundreds of bbc film crews over 35 years” at the end of each ep. it’s incredible footage and i like watching it
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