Can’t Get You Out of My Head [video] (opens in new tab)

I find with these documentaries that while they often contain interesting factoids here and there, they meander and never make a significant and convincing point. Can't justify spending 8 hours on this.

When I first saw the title, I thought this was a link to the Kylie Minogue music video.

I'm a big Adam Curtis fan, but I was pretty disappointed by this one. The first 5 parts are pretty much the exact same content as his older films - he uses all the same music and even a lot of the same interviews - and some of it seems like he's creating a parody of his own films.

That said, I liked part 6, but I think it should have been released by itself.

Is there a way for a non-British to view the other episodes? Adam Curtis is brilliant.

“...and, as a result, Thabo Mbeki was swept to power”

https://youtu.be/x1bX3F7uTrg

Love a good Adam Curtis documentary, especially when he throws light on obscure moments in history. Probably best not to hang your understanding of the world on the scaffold he constructs though.

I just finished his yesterday.

Lots of mind-blowing history.

I didn't know the ML researcher George Hinton is the great great great grandson of George Boole.

Highly recommend!

I've been awaiting a new Adam Curtis documentary for so long now. They're always a little bit more interesting, more thought-provoking and insightful than most of what is out there about whatever topic they are dealing with.

Feels like an "event" in documentary cinema. The right inquiry, at the right time. The conflict between individual liberty, and the exacerbation of crisis when something beyond our immediate control occurs. At what cost comes the safety net? And who provides it?

The Reverse Marxism of Adam Curtis’s ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head

https://artreview.com/the-reverse-marxism-of-adam-curtis-can...

there are so many mistakes there. at 40:36, Ethel Boole wrote a book "gadfly", about a young girl who sacrificed herself to the revolution. the main protagonist, Arthur Burton, is a young man.

Watched this a few days ago. Highly highly recommend.

Maybe it is just me, but the basis has always been power and tribalism. Its then wrapped in catchy words such as racism, communism, democrats, republicans ...