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Charlie Brooker in Conversation with Adam Curtis
- rektide 5y ago"Can't Get Your Out Of My Head" and "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" are both required viewing epics in my mind. The contrast in this interview here, between a "Black Mirror" think-piece, and the expanded-mind reality viewing of a "Can't" is remarkable. I want to give full respect to Brooker, and I don't know where one would really begin to evince the deep, wild, strong currents of an Adam Curtis film from Adam, but the coverage feels superficial, glancing, a glossy commentary. His videos are so deep, so powerful. They speak to longer, wider conflicts & tensions, and this interview keeps trying to reduce the discussion to contemporary points. Adams videos skip around between time points, but in a way that shows continuity, show how ever-present the tensions have been: while we get to visit some contemporary points & places, that wider pan-optic view is not as strong in this interview as what AC videos I've seen.
- okareaman 5y agoI agree with you but I got an important point out of this interview and that is in previous works such as "Hypernormalization" Curtis focused more on ideas, while in "Can't" he brought in personal stories to make the ideas more accessible and relatable. This observation was made by Brooker.