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In "All Watched Over" Curtis isn't just critiqueing the Reagan/Thatcher/Brexit themes; on my reading (I last watched it a couple of years ago), he is attacking
by denton-scratch 3y ago
In "All Watched Over" Curtis isn't just critiqueing the Reagan/Thatcher/Brexit themes; on my reading (I last watched it a couple of years ago), he is attacking Blair/Mandelson-style technocratic managerialism.
I still can't work out what Curtis actually believes in. I suspect he's some kind of revolutionary.
I suspect that part of the murkiness is strategic: that if he said what he meant, the BBC would stop commissioning his films.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoThere's some interesting links between Curtis and the old Revolutionary Communist Party / Living Marxism crowd which has weirdly transformed itself into provocative right-wing libertarians of Spiked. https://twitter.com/cstross/status/417666074298318848 https://twitter.com/cstross/status/417666074298318848 That whole group baffles/fascinates/frightens me: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Spiked https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Spiked They'd actually make an amazing subject for an Adam Curtis style documentary.
- denton-scratch 3y agoOh, interesting. There's a link (by "Noel Cass") from that twitter thread to an article by "Dan Hancox", who refers to him as "The omnipotent narrator". That's the opposite of his approach; he's very coy and elliptical. That article by Hancox is a tedious rant, by the way; don't bother. The ashes of the RCP have come to life in the contemporary Tory Party. I had no idea that Curtis had had connections to the RCP.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoAn archive link for the original article that goes in depth, just in case you didn't find it. I noticed it's been removed from the wayback machine. https://archive.is/vNsfH https://archive.is/vNsfH