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Great take on the programmes Imran! Since i'm a small minded imbecile it's all to easy to take flashily produced documentaries at their word ;)
One thing that occurred while watching them was I lost sight of the digital aspect of the original concept. It seems the one common aspect to "dystopia" is man. Sometimes I wish we were really watched over by those machines of loving grace. It might stop us being such arseholes to each other.
Oh and Curtis did put together a great soundtrack. Though I reckon he overused Burial's "Forgive" - brilliant though it is, it was used to signal "something dying" (concept or other) a couple of times too often.
Countering The Machines Of Loving Grace
"It's not the effect of technology on society, on economics, on religion, on war, on culture - etcetera - on art, it's that everything now is existing in technology as the new host of life. It's the price we pay for the pursuit of our technological happiness…" Godfrey Reggio, director of Naqoyqa...
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