HyperNormalisation (2016)

Directed by

Adam Curtis

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

2h 47m

Rated

12

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 157 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary argues that after the 1970s, powerful people created a simplified fake version of the world to keep control and benefit big corporations. It shows how this artificial reality was built and how it still shapes politics and daily life today.

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What happens

HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on BBC iPlayer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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