The Society of the Spectacle (2023)
- Original title
- La société du spectacle
- Country
- Sweden
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
This documentary updates Guy Debord's 1967 critique of image-saturated capitalism for the 21st century. The filmmakers use satirical interventions and Debord's own films to examine how we become passive consumers.
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