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Predictably the new Adam Curtis doc trailer has got a certain type of person tweeting just to let us all know that they're too smart for him & that he's wrong actually. But his gentle & largely unobtrusive inserts of opinions & vague narrative never bothered me even when I didn't
totally agree with them. His recent docs are so beautiful visually, they have this wonderful strange onereic quality, but this is all achieved just letting events themselves speak in the way that the best documentaries do. It's fascinating. His moments of editorialising
are almost besides the point, and anyway, nothing he says ever imposes too much or prevents anyone from coming to their own conclusions. It should also be pointed out that his earlier documentaries about the history of finance and Thatcherism are some scathing & very informative
accounts of British and American power in the 20th century that give a broad idea of how things worked in terms you can actually understand. It presents these events in ways that aren't flattering to anyone & actually makes things intelligible. Which is ofc very uncool to some
The complaint that he has the 'wrong' account of how things actually are is really amusing to me because especially in his later work he depicts events as chaotic & irrational & those trying to manage or control them as delusional/insane/corrupt/baffled & their actions as always
having unintended consequences. So in other words he depicts things how they are and this is deeply humiliating to exactly the right type of idiot lol
