Should you watch HyperNormalisation?
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HyperNormalisation
Documentary · 2016
We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…
The sides of HyperNormalisation
- Decades of politics told through archive footage
- Syria, Libya and Wall Street in one story
- The early internet as an escape
HyperNormalisation is good for you if…
- you like a sweeping take on how the powerful manage the world.
- you like decades of recent history, from the 1970s on, told as one story.
- you like archive footage set to unexpected pop and ambient music.
HyperNormalisation is bad for you if…
- you can't sit through nearly three hours of documentary.
- you need some hope at the end of a film.
About: power · post-truth · disillusion
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