Re-uploaded - HyperNormalization: A Different Experience of Reality [Full Documentary, BBC, 2016]

Re-uploaded - HyperNormalisation (2016) - FULL DOCUMENTARY - by Adam Curtis

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Welcome to the post-truth world. You know it's not real. But you accept it as normal. But there is more out there. HyperNormalisation.

Indeed, welcome to the 50 subscriber special! Since we recently had some negative BBC content, i'd like to balance that out with BBC content, that although isn't positive, is at least thought provoking. I personally love this documentary for many reasons. If by chance you haven't watched it yet, im honored to show it to you.

The cult documentary maker Adam Curtis explores the falsity of modern life in his own inimitable style. Though he’s spent the best part of four decades making television, Curtis’s signature blend of hypnotic archive footage, authoritative voiceover and a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for bizarre historical tangents is better suited to the web, a place just as resistant to the narrative handholding of broadcast TV as he is. He argues that an army of technocrats, complacent radicals and Faustian internet entrepreneurs have conspired to create an unreal world; one whose familiar and often comforting details blind us to its total inauthenticity.

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"We live in a time of great uncertainty and confusion. Events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. Donald Trump, Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis, random bomb attacks. And those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed - they have no idea what to do.

This film is the epic story of how we got to this strange place. It explains not only why these chaotic events are happening - but also why we, and our politicians, cannot understand them.

It shows that what has happened is that all of us in the West - not just the politicians and the journalists and the experts, but we ourselves - have retreated into a simplified, and often completely fake version of the world. But because it is all around us we accept it as normal.

But there is another world outside. Forces that politicians tried to forget and bury forty years ago - that then festered and mutated - but which are now turning on us with a vengeful fury. Piercing though the wall of our fake world."

Writer: Adam Curtis
Director: Adam Curtis
Executive Producer: Victoria Jaye
Producer: Sandra Gorel