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…
Editing
Curtis's signature collage of forgotten footage and bangers
Direction
Narration that whispers you're being manipulated
Score
Burial and Nine Inch Nails never sounded so political
Director
Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis
Self - Narrator (voice)
Donald Trump
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger
Self (archive footage)
Gordon Brown
Self (archive footage)
Jane Fonda
Self (archive footage)
Ivana Trump
Self (archive footage)
Benjamin Netanyahu
Self (archive footage)
Tony Blair
Self (archive footage)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)
David Cameron
Self (archive footage)
Nigel Farage
Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months before Trump's election, the film's Trump sections felt prophetic—Curtis had been sitting on that footage for years.
Curtis coined 'hypernormalisation' from Alexei Yurchak's study of late Soviet collapse—society pretending to believe in systems everyone knew were hollow.
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