HyperNormalisation

2016
2h 46m

IMDb RATING

8.2/10

7.6K

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Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.

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Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is h... Read allAdam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.

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IMDb RATING

8.2/10

7.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 nominations total

Self - Singer
(archive footage)

Henry Kissinger

Self - US Secretary of State
(archive footage)

Hafez al-Assad

Self - President of Syria
(archive footage)

Thomas Schelling

Self - Economist
(archive footage)

Soraya El-Hayan

Self - Syria Social Affairs Minister
(archive footage)

Leslie Gelb

Self - US Department of Defense
(archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self - President of the United States
(archive footage)

Nancy Reagan

Self - Ronald Reagan's Wife
(archive footage)

Ayatollah Khomeini

Self - Ayatollah of Iran
(archive footage)
(as Ruhollah Khomeyni)

George Pucciarelli

Self - US Navy Commander, Chaplain
(archive footage)

Timothy Leary

Self - Psychologist
(archive footage)

John Perry Barlow

Self - Electronic Frontier Foundation
(archive footage)

Phiber Optik

Self - Computer Hacker
(archive footage)

Muammar Gaddafi

Self - Ruler of Lybia
(archive footage)
(as Muammar Gadaffi)

Director
- Adam Curtis
Writer
- Adam Curtis
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Trivia
The term "hypernormalisation" is taken from Alexei Yurchak's 2006 book Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation, about the paradoxes of life in the Soviet Union during the 20 years before it collapsed.

Quotes
Narrator: This was a new world that the old systems of power found it very difficult to deal with. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the security agencies secretly collected data from millions of people online. One program was called optic nerve. It took stills from the webcam conversations of millions of people across the world, trying to spot terrorist planning another attack. The program did not discover a single terrorist, but it did discover something else.

Connections
Featured in Russell Brand the Trews: HyperNormalisation: Trews Special Edition (2016)

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The Vanishing American family
Written by Scuba Z
Interpreted by Scuba Z

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Featured review

9/10

Makes you wonder

With a £30k budget and an amazing flair for story-telling, the director takes us on a journey through post-WW2 history and the circumstances as to why we are in this disillusioned state so many political agendas seem to be supporting.

This is great viewing and really gets you to think hard about the issues that matter: nothing can truly be explained by a 140-character tweet and that's exactly the problem: the world is too interlinked and complex to be understood via superficial analysis nor poetic slogans.

We need to collectively understand the deeper issues at hand, and find the solution that deals at source - building walls, imperial slogans, bigotry and racist knee-jerk responses are not the way

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