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| Adam Curtis | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
| Donald J. Trump | ... | Himself - Businessman (archive footage) (as Donald Trump) | |
| Vladimir Putin | ... | Himself - Russia Leader (archive footage) | |
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Victor Gotbaum | ... | Himself - NYC Workers League (archive footage) |
| Patti Smith | ... | Herself - Singer (archive footage) | |
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Hafez al-Assad | ... | Himself - President of Syria (archive footage) |
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Thomas Schelling | ... | Himself - Economist (archive footage) |
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Soraya El-Hayan | ... | Herself - Syria Social Affairs Minister (archive footage) |
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Leslie Gelb | ... | Himself - US Department of Defense (archive footage) |
| Ronald Reagan | ... | Himself - President of the United States (archive footage) | |
| Nancy Reagan | ... | Herself - Ronald Reagan's Wife (archive footage) | |
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Ruhollah Khomeyni | ... | Himself - Ayatollah of Iran (archive footage) |
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George Pucciarelli | ... | Himself - US Navy Commander, Chaplain (archive footage) |
| Timothy Leary | ... | Himself - Psychologist (archive footage) | |
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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
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The term "hypernormalisation" is taken from Alexei Yurchak's 2006 book Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation, about the paradoxes of life in the Soviet Union during the 20 years before it collapsed. See more »Quotes
Narrator: This was a new world that the old systems of power found it very difficult to deal with. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the security agencies secretly collected data from millions of people online. One program was called optic nerve. It took stills from the webcam conversations of millions of people across the world, trying to spot terrorist planning another attack. The program did not discover a single terrorist, but it did discover something else.See more »
This is a documentary that people need to watch. It's informative in a way I have never seen on TV before and will help people of all political divides to make their minds up as to weather their political beliefs are accurate.
From other reviews you will gather that it is about politics, money, power, The West, the Middle East, and how politicians are trying to re-establish some form of control by lying to you.
My review is to encourage you to watch this because of the future of the internet. INFORMATION IS POWER.
Today questions are being put forward in parliament about how to control the internet - this documentary will both inform you about how important this is and possibly scare you about who might be setting the controls.