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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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