[HN Gopher] Adam Curtis' "Bitter Lake": A Review
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       Adam Curtis' "Bitter Lake": A Review
        
       Author : chippy
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2021-09-13 21:25 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | optimalsolver wrote:
       | I used to be quite an Adam Curtis fan until I realized his work
       | is basically the narrative fallacy gone wild.
       | 
       | I still recommend Century Of The Self as a great piece of
       | documentary filmmaking.
        
       | pan69 wrote:
       | > Curtis draws a conclusion without a narrative trajectory; he
       | leaves multifarious discordant happenings to interplay...
       | 
       | I think Curtis does this on purpose. Whenever I watch a Curtis
       | doco, I feel I'm being told a compelling story. However, if you
       | ask me afterwards what it was about, I will stumble to explain
       | what it was about. I think Curtis is trying to show the viewer
       | the complexity of the world and how difficult it is to actually
       | get a grasp on reality and that there are no good guys and bad
       | guys and that we're all the good guys and bad guys and that most
       | of what we "believe" to be true is a simplification (a
       | caricature) of reality.
        
       | elmomle wrote:
       | Overall it's an interesting review, but saying that 99% of
       | Afghanis want Sharia Law and citing an unsourced claim in a blog
       | post is poor writing and undermines the author's credibility
       | substantially.
        
         | croumet wrote:
         | We all know Sharia-law is all about love and compassion, no
         | problem there...
        
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