Some super-reality from documentarian Adam Curtis to kick off your Monday morning, commentating on the falseties of modernity.
An excerpt from last night’s feature-length feature, available on BBC iPlayer for those of us using proxies.
Grab a quick tay.
Sez the Grauniad:
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.
Not wishing to undersell the concept, Curtis begins the film with a shot of a torch shining limply into a thicket, so that viewers find themselves literally unable to see the wood for the trees.
There ye are now.