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Curtis is fun to watch when you're 20 years old. (Maybe that's a bit harsh.) I find that his documentaries only SEEM to make a lot of sense. Watching his stuff

Curtis is fun to watch when you're 20 years old. (Maybe that's a bit harsh.) I find that his documentaries only SEEM to make a lot of sense. Watching his stuff feels like watching a magic show. His argument is dazzling, but you get the sense that it would fall apart if you looked deeper.

aredox 1y ago
To me, his work has all the hallmarks of conspiracy theories: a clear, simple, and wrong explanation. It is all a machination by elites - all proven by cherry-picking, selective editing, and absolutely no agency from anybody outside the anglo-sphere. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/cant-get-you-out-my-head-adam-curtis https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/cant-get-you-... https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/57739/adam-curtiss-paranoia https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/57739/adam-cu... https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/adam-curtis-hypernormalisation-review-bbc-politics-doom/ https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking... https://archive.ph/0lARa https://archive.ph/0lARa