Adam Curtis - Bitter Lake
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:45 pm
trailer:
full movie on iPlayer (UK only):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... itter-lake
inevitable Youtube upload (minus last 20 minutes for some reason):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-KWLK1wGmg
great doc, even more experimental than his usual efforts, about how we went from supporting the Saudis in return for oil, to ISIS and the recent clusterfuck in Afghanistan - a consequence of short-sightedness and fantasy politics. well worth 2 hours of your life
(the scene where someone attempts to explain conceptual art to a group of Afghan women via the example of Duchamps' Urinal is especially surreal, and kind of sums up the absurdity of the whole Western effort in Afghanistan)
full movie on iPlayer (UK only):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... itter-lake
inevitable Youtube upload (minus last 20 minutes for some reason):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-KWLK1wGmg
great doc, even more experimental than his usual efforts, about how we went from supporting the Saudis in return for oil, to ISIS and the recent clusterfuck in Afghanistan - a consequence of short-sightedness and fantasy politics. well worth 2 hours of your life
(the scene where someone attempts to explain conceptual art to a group of Afghan women via the example of Duchamps' Urinal is especially surreal, and kind of sums up the absurdity of the whole Western effort in Afghanistan)
