Can’t Get You Out of My Head - Adam Curtis
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New documentary series by Adam Curtis released on iPlayer. I’m going to start on it tonight.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p093wp6h/ca...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p093wp6h/ca...
Finished it last night.
Not sure I ‘enjoyed’ a lot of it but I also found myself engrossed in every episode.
Could have done with a stricter edit. I found a lot of the subjects covered were new to me and I enjoy how he finds a narrative out of seemingly unconnected historical events.
It’s really audio visual art more than anything.
Kudos to the BBC for letting one man with a singular vision produce something so wholly mainstream TV unfriendly.
Not sure I ‘enjoyed’ a lot of it but I also found myself engrossed in every episode.
Could have done with a stricter edit. I found a lot of the subjects covered were new to me and I enjoy how he finds a narrative out of seemingly unconnected historical events.
It’s really audio visual art more than anything.
Kudos to the BBC for letting one man with a singular vision produce something so wholly mainstream TV unfriendly.
Watched the first two last night and it's both absorbing and totally random. Really not sure how Robin Douglas-Home and his wife fitted into the proceedings. 
Really felt like I needed some decent weed rather than the red wine I was drinking to really get the benefits of it and for it to really come together.
Looking forward to the rest.
Really felt like I needed some decent weed rather than the red wine I was drinking to really get the benefits of it and for it to really come together.
Looking forward to the rest.
Just one to go now, but have to admit they've been hard work after the first two. Going back to Mao's wife all the time seems a little odd together with all the other randomness, it just seems way too incoherent.
Just when you think something is going to come together, click and make a revelation, it just doesn't.
The penultimate episode was all over the place.
Just when you think something is going to come together, click and make a revelation, it just doesn't.
The penultimate episode was all over the place.
Agreed
I enjoyed the movie he did about the origins of terror, Gadaffi Trump etc.
but this is just incoherent rambling, he has been given too much time and space I think.
And as you say, no real answer, just statements which is I suppose the point, but i gave up after about a half hour, got bored. And i usually enjoy his stuff
I enjoyed the movie he did about the origins of terror, Gadaffi Trump etc.
but this is just incoherent rambling, he has been given too much time and space I think.
And as you say, no real answer, just statements which is I suppose the point, but i gave up after about a half hour, got bored. And i usually enjoy his stuff
vixen1700 said:
Watched the first two last night and it's both absorbing and totally random. Really not sure how Robin Douglas-Home and his wife fitted into the proceedings.
Really felt like I needed some decent weed rather than the red wine I was drinking to really get the benefits of it and for it to really come together.
Looking forward to the rest.
I think it was a demonstration of the upper class attitudes of the time that once married the 'little woman' should know her place and stay at home out the way allowing hubby to carry on as before, even if she was earning more than him (also now married to Michael Howard btw) Really felt like I needed some decent weed rather than the red wine I was drinking to really get the benefits of it and for it to really come together.
Looking forward to the rest.
I'm really interested and halfway through but it does have a tendancy to make me nod off!
Finally finished the series, the last one wasn't as tortuous as I was expecting and it seemed to have a flow missing in the previous two.
Watched it late after my wife went to bed, but she got up and also became engrossed in it after I explaned just how random it would be.
All in all though, well worth a watch.
Watched it late after my wife went to bed, but she got up and also became engrossed in it after I explaned just how random it would be.
All in all though, well worth a watch.
Mezzanine said:
Curtis never really comes up with many answers, I think he just like to lead you down a few paths to make you think nor explore further at your leisure.
He seems to want you to come to your own conclusions.
It is very expansive this one, eight hours of not that enlightening material!
This, it desperately needs an editor; there are also howlers lurking in the narrative which render some of his conclusions unintentionally hilarious, e.g. Curtis posits that postwar germany's capitalist efficiency was just a continuation of the efficiency of the 3rd reich; in reality nazi germany was appallingly inefficient. He seems to want you to come to your own conclusions.
It is very expansive this one, eight hours of not that enlightening material!
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