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Adam Curtis is honestly one of the greatest documentarians of our time. I first watched Hypernormalization, but then binged everything he ever made a few months
by kouru225 3y ago
Adam Curtis is honestly one of the greatest documentarians of our time. I first watched Hypernormalization, but then binged everything he ever made a few months ago.
More Adam Curtis recs: the DDT episode and the Kwame Nkrumah episode of Pandora’s Box (the rest are good too), The Way of All Flesh, and The Power of Nightmares. Also, Cant Get You Out Of My Head might be his masterpiece but it’s also not very accessible.
- dottjt 3y agoHis latest documentary on the fall of the soviet union was fascinating, although admittedly very dry and difficult to watch since there was no commentary. I feel that's really only for hardcore Curtis fans, which I'm sure, he knows would be interested in.
- dash2 3y agoCounterpoint: Adam Curtis is a pretentious bore. His films feature massively overegged theses, based on a flimsy evidence base. His ideas are trivial, but he thinks they are deep.
- kouru225 3y agoI used to feel this way, but then I slowly realized that Curtis tends to appear to have more of a thesis than he ever actually does. The movies are less a traditional essay, and more a social history of ideas and their consequences. What the ideas mean isn’t as important to him as how the ideas influence us. By tracing the history of memes (in the Richard Dawkins sense of the word), he’s providing a service that almost no one else is providing.