I am currently in hour two of Adam Curtis’ documentary “The Trap” and am as amazed as ever. I feel that his other two documentaries “The Century of the Self” and “The Power of Nightmares” are perhaps the most important documentaries ever made. A close second would be John Pilger’s (wiki) “Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia.” The Trap is shaping up to be another amazing installment of Curtis’ unique and refreshing perspective by systematically proving how different elite camps have fought to imposed their ideology into modernity.
For those of you who have not seen any of his documentaries I challenge you to watch as many of the ten hours as you possibly can!
Once you watch a couple of episodes please post your reaction and feelings towards the films.
Adam Curtis (wiki - IMDB)
The Century of the Self (wiki)
- Happiness Machines
- The Engineering of Consent
- There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed
- Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
The Power of Nightmares (wiki)
- Baby it’s Cold Outside
- The Phantom Victory
- The Shadows in the Cave
The Trap (wiki)
- F**k You Buddy
- "The Lonely Robot
- We Will Force You To Be Free (1/3)
We Will Force You To Be Free(2/3)
We Will Force You To Be Free (3/3)
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Watched the first three episodes of the century of the self.
Nothing really new, but would shock an everyday person, I suppose. A good introduction to being social conscious too. Other than that, I didn’t see any phenomenal diversion or improvement on the standard style of documentary.
Yet another documentary hoping to be a documentary film.
Most documentary filmakers haven’t heard of original cinematography or moving beyond the unoriginal use of stock footage in predictable montage.
3/5 from me, hardly the best, but it’s hard to find an innovative film never mind a documentary film that does more than the rest.
Will watch the other doc’s, perhaps it gets better.
I’m a massive fan of Adam Curtis. I thought that aside from failing to cover the issue of Western Intelligence Service complicity in Al Qaeda, The Power of Nightmares is an excellent series.
His style is lauded, but I don’t know why. I could knock together a montage of that quality in a matter of days. He does pace his works very well - lots of information but you never feel flooded or overwhelmed.
The Trap also has a few omissions, but it’s such a worthy topic for a documentary that I’m not complaining.