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Title: HyperNormalisation (2016)
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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) | |
| Henry Kissinger | ... | Himself - US Secretary of State (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) | |
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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Adam again used his deconstructivist style in order to reach the un-result leaving the viewer mesmerized and perplexed by what s/he should hold as truth in this world. The soundtrack of the documentary is similar to his previous documentary "Bitter Lake" with the acid music and also the colors in the movie are really sharp with raw footage that are unedited maybe to reflect the real world he's trying to unravel to the laymen. Again, he blames the finance men for the troubles that are happening around the world and also the politicians who gave up their powers to them by letting them have more than it is supposed to be. However, he has some inaccuracies in terms of some cases especially to what is happening in the Arab world. In other words, he may have even fallen in the perception management that he described in his documentary. In general, his documentary is mind opening to question the reality that is surrounding us.