33hamsters t1_jcb3a2u wrote
Adam Curtis is such a talented documentarian, and the didacticism of his projects is well served by his tangible concern with topical issues, but if you watch a lot of his work its clear that he doesn't handle Asia or Africa in the same way he handles Europe or North America. Just something to watch for. A lot of this is simply the fact that he is working with BBC archive access, if someone wanted to be the next Adam Curtis they could really expand on his methods by collaborating internationally with other networks.
mrchaddy t1_jcbo4fk wrote
You will enjoy this article on Adam by Jon Ronson. It contains one of the most profound statements i ever read “ I found a man in the archives who spends his time recording the bits in between the programs. He believes television is really one long construction of a giant story out of fragments of recorded reality from all over the world that is constantly added to every day, and has been going on for 70 years.”
33hamsters t1_jcfw0r5 wrote
Oh this is beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing it!
fouoifjefoijvnioviow t1_jcbnbzl wrote
His last one on USSR seemed pro-Putin to me
TheNewestHaven t1_jcbzlsd wrote
i didnt get that impression at all.
fouoifjefoijvnioviow t1_jcc279q wrote
He called Putin an anonymous bureaucrat picked by oligarchs, and completely omitted he was in fact KGB
TheNewestHaven t1_jcc7w3v wrote
As far as I know he was not officially involved in the KGB after 1990, so when he was brought in, he was indeed a random bureaucrat. I also don't see how this omission as you see it creates a pro-putin narrative. The narrative was the oligarch's needed someone they could trust who would 'play ball' and he was the stooge they picked. He could have mentioned Putin worked at FSB (like the russian FBI post Soviet Union).
fouoifjefoijvnioviow t1_jcc95yz wrote
I mean it's quite the omission, and the KGB ended just around that time. It's just a too-simple narrative that Putin is not some well-trenched apparatchik, but just another poor nobody stuck in the role.
Orngog t1_jccncn2 wrote
IIRC he gets three sentences at most, or at least his life before the Kremlin does. Is that the last part of this? It's been years.
Also, I'm no expert but I seem to recall the KGB connection didn't come into play during his very rapid ascent to power? I thought it was more "being close to Yeltsin at the right time".
Edit: forgot to say, Putin is an utter waste of life. I hope he is soon removed from this earth, Slava Ukraïni!
urbanfirestrike t1_jcbs84n wrote
Reality has that bias
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