[HN Gopher] Adam Curtis' "Bitter Lake": A Review ___________________________________________________________________ Adam Curtis' "Bitter Lake": A Review Author : chippy Score : 16 points Date : 2021-09-13 21:25 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (im1776.com) (TXT) w3m dump (im1776.com) | 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... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-09-13 23:00 UTC)