Consistently engaging due to the wealth of generally unfamiliar archival footage, which reveals social trends, sweeping overview should provoke healthy debate.
The Century of the Self
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United Kingdom · 2002-2002
1 seasons · Completed
3h 35m
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Starring Adam Curtis, Anne Bernays, Martin S. Bergmann, Robert Reich
Genre Documentary, War & Politics
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The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which most are unaware. The film is an exhaustive examination of his theories on human desire, and how they're applied to platforms such as advertising, consumerism and politics.
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An engrossing quartet of hour-long films by British documentarian Adam Curtis, doesn't so much challenge Freud's theories of the unconscious as shadow them through the corridors of corporate and political power. What emerges is nothing less than a history of 20th-century social control.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
It will make you laugh, and feel like crying.
The New York Times by Lawrence Van Gelder
An unusually cerebral filmed essay that demands focus and patience from its audience as it sets about the task of unearthing a secret history of the 20th century. Adam Curtis, the film's director and writer, saves the proceedings from being overly dry with his visual wit and deft touch with archival materials.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Rapt, heady, and startling: the most profound documentary I've seen this decade.
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