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 serial thriller  The Promised Land 05 Feb 15 7.03pm |
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Anyone watch? Really beautiful and insightful film about the problems in Afghanistan in the last 70 or so years, albeit I fell asleep about 3 times during the 2 hours because of Adam Curtis' silky vocal backing. It just made me realise how incredibly ignorant I, and most people in the West are about the background of these wars in the Middle East. I felt like Crocodile Dundee when he goes to New York and doesn't have a f***ing clue what things are or what's going on, and the film made me feel like most of our political leaders are in a similar sort of position.
If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4 |
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| ghosteagle 05 Feb 15 7.13pm |
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Seen it, loved it.
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 05 Feb 15 11.08pm |
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Bugger missed it, I love Adam Curtis movies / series / documentaries. Always thought provoking.
"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug" |
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| Joseph Paxton Lancing 06 Feb 15 8.41pm |
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I'm going to watch it on iPlayer. Similar sort of thing is reading the history of North Korea. Although the USA under a UN flag didn't nuke N Korea they had just perfected napalm and dropped vast loads of this and incendiaries on the Koreans, carpet bombing towns and villages off the map. After many months the NK were living in caves or makeshift tunnels. Its no wonder they are so paranoid and despise the American so much. Not much seems to be written on that war 65 years ago.
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