HyperNormalisation

(2016)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 165 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2016

Runtime: 167 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Adam Curtis

Cast: Adam Curtis, Дональд Трамп, Владимир Путин, Рональд Рейган, Генри Киссинджер, Gordon Brown, Джейн Фонда, Ivana Trump, Биньямин Нетаньяху, Tony Blair

Plot

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…

HyperNormalisation tells the extraordinary story of how we got to this strange time of great uncertainty and confusion - where those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed - and have no idea what to do. And, where events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control - from Donald Trump to Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis, and random bomb attacks. It explains not only why these chaotic events are happening - but also why we, and our politicians, cannot understand them. The film shows that what has happened is that all of us in the West - not just the politicians and the journalists and the experts, but we ourselves - have retreated into a simplified, and often completely fake version of the world. But because it is all around us, we accept it as normal. From BBCiPlayer