The Grand Pantomime
A look at HyperNormalisation, the excellent new documentary from Adam Curtis that will make your head explode.
–
See also:
* MI6 Stood By Bogus Intelligence Until After Iraq Invasion.
* How Michael Bay’s The Rock Was Used to Justify War in Iraq.
* ‘It Was Such Obvious Bullshit’: The Rock Writer Shocked Film May Have Inspired False WMD Intelligence.
–
The trailer:
–
See also:
* BBC: Adam Curtis On Why You Life Doesn’t Make Sense.
* Guardian: Adam Curtis Plots A Path From Syria To Trump, Via Jane Fonda.
* Curtis’s trailer for Vice:
–
Also: The Trews is back. Today we take a look at the bizarre spectacle that is the U.S. election debate.
–
Previously in The Trews, like the news if the news were true:
* What Should We Think About CIA Torture?
* CIA Torture: Guantanamo Bay Prisoner Lifts Lid.
* Coca-Cola’s Christmas Commercial.
* The Sainsbury Christmas Ad.
* Who Is Our Real Common Enemy?
* Budweiser’s Super Bowl Commercial.
* About Those Super Bowl Ads.
* Government Spying: Who’s The Biggest Threat To Your Security?
* Ferguson’s Minstrels.
* If Politics Is Dead, Is The Election Its Funeral?
* Is Rupert Murdoch More Powerful Than Your Vote?
* What Does It Mean To Support The Troops?
* Am I Mad Enough To Crash A Plane Into A Mountain?
* The Trews’ Final Episode: On Cyclical, Scripted Journalism.
–
Comments welcome.
Posted on October 17, 2016