12-22-2018, 01:50 AM
Did you really miss the point of me posting that? Or are you trolling me right now? lol
The film pretends to expose the manipulators of perception. But the film itself is an elaborate manipulation of perception. They threw in enough truths to make it plausible.
Who did they portray as the master manipulators? Reagan, Bush, and Trump.
Who did they carefully NOT mention at all in the whole 2 1/2 hours, except maybe in passing? The Clintons and Obama.
Who did they portray as the champions of freedom on the Internet? Liberals. Maybe that was true 30 years ago, but trying to pretend they still are is hilarious.
Who did they specifically not mention as being fascist oppressors of free expression? Antifa. I think they even went as far as to portray Antifa as actual anti-fascists at one point. lol
So yeah, all told, it was one giant hit piece against the right wing. At least you got that part.
The thing they got right, before it devolved into a partisan hit piece, was how control over society shifted away from normal government processes and towards corporate managers. And how a few tech corporations put us in echo chambers, and don't let us hear anything else. It could've been a decent film if they'd stuck with that theme. They couldn't do that though because the BBC is one of the corporations hijacking control and managing perceptions, and they obviously aren't going to draw attention to that fact.
