Adam Curtis - "Bitter Lake" and "Hypernormalisation"

Grumpy Owl · August 25, 2020

Bitter Lake (2015):

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Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis – leaving us bewildered and disorientated.

Bitter Lake is an adventurous and epic film by Adam Curtis that explains why the big stories that politicians tell us have become so simplified that we can’t really see the world any longer.

The narrative goes all over the world, America, Britain, Russia and Saudi Arabia – but the country at the heart of it is Afghanistan. Because Afghanistan is the place that has confronted our politicians with the terrible truth – that they cannot understand what is going on any longer.

The film reveals the forces that over the past thirty years rose up and undermined the confidence of politics to understand the world. And it shows the strange, dark role that Saudi Arabia has played in this.

But Bitter Lake is also experimental. Curtis has taken the unedited rushes of everything that the BBC has ever shot in Afghanistan – and used them in new and radical ways.

He has tried to build a different and more emotional way of depicting what really happened in Afghanistan. A counterpoint to the thin, narrow and increasingly destructive stories told by those in power today.

Hypernormalisation (2016)

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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.

Two very powerful documentaries, that I watched around the start of my own 'awakening' which got me looking into alternatives to the 'official narrative'.

You'll have to watch the videos on YouTube, as they won't play while embedded here.

I don't recall anyone else here mentioning them. Though they were produced for the BBC, I don't recall them ever being shown on any BBC channel, online only.

oddsnsods · August 25, 2020

Another gatekeeper..throws in a few truths but keeps you stuck in the fiction.

Watched Century of the self & power of nightmares on my journey, but is obvious propaganda.

Grumpy Owl · August 25, 2020

4 minutes ago, oddsnsods said:

Another gatekeeper..throws in a few truths but keeps you stuck in the fiction.

Watched Century of the self & power of nightmares on my journey, but is obvious propaganda.

Quite possible of course. I haven't seen his other documentaries so can't comment on those.

But these two did have a profound effect on me, and really got me looking into further and questioning the 'official narratives' that were being pushed by the MSM at the time.

oddsnsods · August 25, 2020

28 minutes ago, Grumpy Owl said:

Quite possible of course. I haven't seen his other documentaries so can't comment on those.

But these two did have a profound effect on me, and really got me looking into further and questioning the 'official narratives' that were being pushed by the MSM at the time.

True, he definitely gets you thinking.

Manjix · September 8, 2020

All of his videos are on YouTube some of them quite old. All unmissable. All sorts of subjects. The Paedo ring involving the royalty, Krays etc.

another one about the proposed Military Coup against Harold Wilson. Guess who was going to be Britain’s Dictator ? Mountbatten , shock , horror.

sock muppet · March 8, 2022

I would like to add this documentary as well by Adam Curtis;

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.

Within this Documentary is the root of where we are today, so it is not surprising then that the MSM are doing what they are doing with deception, lies, misinformation and pure staged fabrications because it is all about money, they do this with the full approval of each of their regulatory Governments, as the news feeds from all the major MSM outlets such as BBC, CNN, RT, FOX .....etc are plugged into the stock markets and the input from those feeds are deciphered by the automated systems that trade the available assets on buy or sell signals, what you see on the idiot box is nothing more than an information war of buy or sell signals, your life in effect is being traded as you watch, Ayn Rand has a lot to answer for!

And is it just me that likes the musical scores to Adam Curtis documentaries, any way enjoy.

sock muppet · March 9, 2022

On 8/25/2020 at 7:28 PM, Grumpy Owl said:

Bitter Lake (2015):

Hypernormalisation (2016)

Two very powerful documentaries, that I watched around the start of my own 'awakening' which got me looking into alternatives to the 'official narrative'.

You'll have to watch the videos on YouTube, as they won't play while embedded here.

I don't recall anyone else here mentioning them. Though they were produced for the BBC, I don't recall them ever being shown on any BBC channel, online only.

I am adding these links from bitchute as the 'screw u tube' channel has taken most of them down if not all, this channel reports as being three years old so should be safe for a while.

Bitter Lake (2015):

https://www.bitchute.com/video/JDg1DfvYITET/