Adam Curtis responded to this parody in an interview with The Quietus at the beginning of this year. Q: Some critics of your work – for example, The Loving Tra

Adam Curtis responded to this parody in an interview with The Quietus at the beginning of this year. Q: Some critics of your work – for example, The Loving Trap parody – argue that what you do is very skilfully create elaborate narratives which make connections and draw parallels that are then presented as objective truth. Do you sometimes worry about being dismissed as part of the ‘conspiracy’ problem? A: "That parody is very funny and clever, and it made me reflect on myself, which is good. But let’s be clear, I’ve never in any of my films put forward a conspiracy theory. Over the last 20 years, when the mainstream left and right in this country have essentially fused together, out of that has emerged a very strong consensus. In the face of that, the term ‘conspiracy theory’ has transformed itself into a shorthand to describe anyone who challenges that mainstream narrative. My job, which the BBC has tasked me to do, is to provoke people and ask them, “Have you thought about looking at the world this way?” To pull back a bit and look at what is happening in a different way. But that is not a conspiracy theory. In the New Yorker he also touched upon it: Boone directed readers instead to a short online spoof of Curtis’s films by Ben Woodhams called “The Loving Trap,” which describes his work as the “televisual equivalent of a drunken late-night Wikipedia binge.” Curtis is conscious of what even his admirers call his “wild leaps.” “As a critique, I’m aware of that, but I’m also aware that that’s what all journalists do,” he said. “But since they’re actually just saying the same old thing, people don’t notice the leaps. . . . I’m making no more bigger leaps than most of my colleagues do, when they tell me that Al Qaeda is about to sail a boat down the Thames with an atomic bomb on it—and that would be accepted in 2005, or whenever it was.” https://thequietus.com/articles/29558-film-adam-curtis-cant-get-you-out-of-my-head-interview https://thequietus.com/articles/29558-film-adam-curtis-cant-... https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/adam-curtis-explains-it-all https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/adam-curti...