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HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that governments, financiers, and technological utopians have, since the 1970s, given up on the complex 'real world' and built a simpler 'fake world' run by corporations and kept stable by politicians. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on the BBC iPlayer.^[2]

Etymology[edit]

The word hypernormalization was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a professor of anthropology who was born in Leningrad and later went to teach in the United States. He introduced the word in his book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (2006), which describes paradoxes of Soviet life during the 1970s and 1980s.^[3][4] He says that everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine an alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society.^[5] Over time, this delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy and the fakeness was accepted by everyone as real, an effect that Yurchak termed hypernormalisation.^[6]

Chapters[edit]

The film comprises nine chapters.

1975[edit]

The fiscal crisis in New York City and the emergent idea that financial systems could run society; shuttle diplomacy between then-US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Middle Eastern leaders in the Arab-Israeli dispute and the subsequent retreat by Hafez al-Assad of Syria; and the onset of hypernormalisation in the Soviet Union.

The Human Bomb[edit]

Following the United States' involvement in the 1982 Lebanon War, a vengeful al-Assad made an alliance with Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran. They planned to force the US out of the Middle East by encouraging civilians to carry out suicide bombings on American targets in the region, thereby avoiding reprisals. In February 1984, the US withdrew all its troops from Lebanon because, in the words of then-US Secretary of State George P. Shultz, 'we became paralysed by the complexity that we faced'.

Altered States[edit]

By the mid-1980s, banks and corporations were connecting through computer networks to create a hidden system of power, and technological utopians whose roots lay in the counterculture of the 1960s also saw the internet as an opportunity to make an alternative world that was free of political and legal restraints.

Acid Flashback[edit]

John Perry Barlow's vision of cyberspace as the 1990s equivalent of the Acid Tests. Barlow had been part of the LSD (also known as 'acid') counterculture in the 1960s and founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He wrote a manifesto called A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. Addressed to politicians, it declared 'the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose upon us'. Two computer hackers—Phiber Optik and Acid Phreak—knew that in reality corporations were using the internet to exert more control over the lives of people than governments had done in the past, and they demonstrated that hierarchies did exist online by obtaining Barlow's credit record from TRW Inc. and posting it on the internet.

The Colonel[edit]

This chapter describes the Reagan administration using Muammar Gaddafi as a pawn in their public relations (PR) strategy of creating a simplified, morally unambiguous foreign policy by blaming him for the 1985 Rome and Vienna airport attacks and the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing that killed US soldiers, both of which European security services attributed to Syrian intelligence agencies. Gaddafi is described as playing along for the sake of increasing his profile in the Arab world as a revolutionary. The 1986 United States bombing of Libya, 10 days after the disco bombing, is described as an operation carried out mainly for PR reasons, because attacking Syria would have been too risky.

The Truth Is Out There[edit]

This chapter begins with a montage of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings recorded by members of the public in the United States. It argues that the phenomenon surrounding UFOs in the 1990s was born out of a counter-intelligence operation designed to make the public believe that secret airborne high-technology weapons systems tested by the US military during and after the Cold War were alien visitations. Top secret memos forged by the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations were allegedly leaked to ufologists who spread the manufactured conspiracy theory of a government cover-up to the wider public. The method, called perception management, aimed to distract people from the complexities of the real world. American politics are described as having become increasingly detached from reality. Curtis uses the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s as an example of an event that took the West by surprise because reality had become less and less important. A Jane Fondaworkout video is shown to illustrate that socialists had given up trying to change the real world and were instead focusing on the self and encouraging others to do the same. The video is intercut with footage of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, being executed by firing squad and buried following the Romanian Revolution in 1989.

Managed Outcomes[edit]

Ulrich Beck is identified as a left-wing German political theorist. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he saw the world as too complex to change, and Beck asserted that politicians should merely keep the West stable by predicting and avoiding risks. Curtis looks at Aladdin, a computer that manages about 7% of the world's financial assets, analysing the past to anticipate what may happen in the future; and how anti-depressant drugs and social media both stabilise the emotions of individuals.

A Cautionary Tale[edit]

The start of this chapter is about the flaws of trying to predict the future by using data from the past. Curtis tells the story of how a card counter was recruited by Donald Trump to analyse the gambling habits of Akio Kashiwagi at his casino, the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, after Trump had lost millions of dollars to Kashiwagi. In an effort to avert the impending bankruptcy of the casino, a model was devised that predicted a way of recouping the money from Kashiwagi, who lost US$10 million. However, before he could pay, he was killed by yakuza gangsters and the casino went bankrupt, with Trump having to sell many of his assets to the banks.

Attention turns back to the Middle East and the Lockerbie Bombing in 1988. Curtis says that immediately after the bombing, journalists and investigators blamed Syria for carrying out the attack on behalf of Iran in revenge for the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the United States Navy.^[a] It was generally accepted as true until US security agencies announced that Libya was behind the attack. Some journalists and politicians believed that the West had made the volte-face to appease Syria's leader, who the US and the United Kingdom required as an ally in the coming Gulf War.

He focuses on the spread of suicide bombing tactics from Shia to Sunni Islam and the targeting of civilians in Israel by Hamas during the 1990s. The resulting political paralysis led to a stalling of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. It is described as an unintended consequence of Israel's response to the 1992 killing of an Israeli border guard.

A montage is shown of clips from pre-9/11 disaster films in which New York City landmarks are variously destroyed by alien invaders, meteorites, and a tsunami. Curtis argues that such films were characteristic of a mood of uncertainty that pervaded the United States at the end of the 20th century.

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Curtis shows how Muammar Gaddafi was turned into the West's 'new best friend.'

A World Without Power[edit]

The effect of the Iraq war wreaks havoc on the American psyche and people retreat into cyberspace. Judea Pearl creates Bayesian networks that mimic human behaviour. Judea's son, Daniel Pearl is the first American to be beheaded on a video uploaded to YouTube.

Meanwhile, social media algorithms show information that is pleasing to their users and hence does nothing to challenge their beliefs. Despite this, Occupy Wall Street emerges in an attempt to disrupt the system by imitating the leaderless system that the internet was once imagined to become. Using a similar method, the Egyptian revolution of 2011 commenced.

PyQt5 signals and slots Graphical applications (GUI) are event-driven, unlike console or terminal applications. A users action like clicks a button or selecting an item in a list is called an event. If an event takes place, each PyQt5 widget can emit a signal. Signal slot is the core mechanism of Qt and also the mechanism of object communication in PyQt programming.In Qt, the QObject object and all controls in PyQt that inherit from QWidget support the slot mechanism.When the signal is transmitted, the connected slot function is automatically executed.In PyQt5, the signal and slot functions are connected by the object.signal.connect method. Although PyQt5 allows any Python callable to be used as a slot when connecting signals, it is sometimes necessary to explicitly mark a Python method as being a Qt slot and to provide a C signature for it. Each PyQt widget, which is derived from QObject class, is designed to emit ‘signal' in response to one or more events. The signal on its own does not perform any action. Instead, it is ‘connected' to a ‘slot'. The slot can be any callable Python function. The receivers of signals are called Slots in Qt terminology. A number of standard slots are provided on Qt classes to allow you to wire together different parts of your application. However, you can also use any Python function as a slot, and therefore receive the message yourself. Tutorial pyqt5 signals and slots.

Britain, France and the US turn their backs on Muammar Gaddafi once Libyans rise up against him. The US drops bombs using drones, and then footage is shown of Gaddafi being captured by rebels.

Neither Occupy Wall Street nor the Arab Spring turn out very well for the revolutionaries.

In Russia, Vladimir Putin and his cabinet of political technologists create mass confusion. Vladislav Surkov uses ideas from art to turn Russian politics into a bewildering piece of theatre. Donald Trump used the same techniques in his presidential campaign by using language from Occupy Wall Street and the extreme racist right-wing. Curtis asserts that Trump 'defeated journalism' by rendering its fact-checking abilities irrelevant.

The American Left's attempt to resist Trump on the internet had no effect. In fact, they were just feeding the social media corporations who valued their many additional clicks.

Syria's revolution becomes more vicious and violent. The technique of suicide bombing that Curtis argues Hafez al-Assad introduced in order to unite the Middle East has instead torn it apart. Russia uses Surkov's concept of 'non-linear warfare' to fight against the Syrian rebels. Russia claims to leave Syria, but doesn't.

Abu Musab al-Suri in Syria suggests that terrorists should not carry out large-scale attacks such as Osama Bin Laden's, but instead carry out 'random' small-scale attacks throughout the West to create fear and chaos, against which it would be more difficult to retaliate.

Destabilisation of the West's psyche leads to the vote for Brexit and the popularity of Donald Trump.

The film closes with a Barbara Mandrell performance played over a montage.

Poker face A visage lacking any expression that can be interpreted, as in Whenever Betty attended one of her children's performances, she managed to keep a poker face. This term alludes to the facial expression of a poker player who is expert at concealing his feelings about his hand. Poker face idiom phrase. Poker face is an idiom that first appeared in the 1870s. An idiom is a word, group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. We will examine the definition of the expression poker face, where it came from and some examples of its use in sentences.

Don't help me set the table
Cause now there's one less place
I won't lay mama's silver
For a man who won't say grace
If home is where the heart is
Then your home's on the street
Me, I'll read a good book
Turn out the lights and go to sleep

Music[edit]

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Music used at any stage or repeatedly includes:

• Scuba Z – The Vanishing American Family
• Nine Inch Nails – Something I Can Never Have
• '02 Ghosts I' from Ghosts I–IV by Nine Inch Nails
• Yanka Dyagileva – My Sorrow is Bright
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2: VI. Waltz 2, Part 6/8
• Dmitri Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues (Shostakovich) - Prelude No. 1 in C Major
• Ennio Morricone – La Tragedia Di Un Uomo Ridicolo
• Ennio Morricone – Lontano
• Ennio Morricone – The Thing: Humanity, Part 1
• City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra – Poltergeist: Main Theme
• worriedaboutsatan – Blank Tape
• Thomas Ragsdale – Warning Mass
• Pye Corner Audio – The Black Mill Video Tape
• Gavin Miller – Fotograf (part 2)
• Ghosting Season – Far End of the Graveyard (3am version)
• Suicide – Dream Baby Dream
• Her Name Is Calla - Paying for your funeral
• Burial – In McDonalds
• Burial - Dog Shelter
• Burial – Truant
• Burial - Distant Lights
• Barbara Mandrell – Standing Room Only
• Aphex Twin – Blue Calx
• Brian Eno – On Some Faraway Beach
• Cliff Martinez – I'm in the Pink
• Cliff Martinez - Can I Sit Next to You
• Clint Mansell – Welcome to Lunar Industries
• John Perry Barlow and Dražen Bošnjak – A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
• Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No. 1
• Olivier Messiaen – Turangalila Symphony
• Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes
• Béla Bartók - Bluebeard's Castle

Clips[edit]

HyperNormalisation makes extensive use of footage from the BBC Archives and includes material shot specially for the documentary.^[8]

Critical reception[edit]

The Independent described it as 'A rare documentary that respects the viewer's intelligence'.^[9]The New Yorker described it as 'a searching and essential document of our times..'.^[10] In The Guardian, reviewer Charlie Lyne writes, '[this] 165-minute opus makes a feature of its sheer unwieldiness, as Curtis veers from social history to conspiracy theory via the odd rambling bar-room anecdote, like a man who's two-dozen browser tabs into a major Wikipedia binge'.^[11] For The Hollywood Reporter, Stephen Dalton writes, 'A rich gumbo of occult conspiracy theory, dystopian science-fiction thriller and Noam Chomsky-style Marxist critique, Hypernormalisation is highly compelling even when its arguments are not wholly convincing.. This fascinating assemblage of half-explored ideas should inspire curious viewers to conduct further research of their own, which is an entirely healthy and positive response'.^[12] Phil Harrison, in a review for The Quietus, wrote 'it could be argued that Curtis himself is just another master manipulator'.^[13] In Little White Lies, David Jenkins wrote that the film 'reveals [Curtis's] limited range as a filmmaker'.^[14]

Awards and nominations[edit]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

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References[edit]

1. ^Tim Adams (9 October 2016). 'Adam Curtis continues search for the hidden forces behind a century of chaos'. The Guardian. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
2. ^Holly Barrett (22 September 2016). 'New Adam Curtis film HyperNormalisation comes to iPlayer'. Royal Television Society. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
3. ^Brandon Harris (3 November 2016). 'Adam Curtis's essential counterhistories'. The New Yorker. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
4. ^Yurchak, Alexei (23 October 2005). Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. (In-Formation). Princeton University Press. ISBN978-0691121178.
5. ^Adam Curtis (16 October 2016). 'With documentary film-maker Adam Curtis'. Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service (Interview). Interviewed by Jarvis Cocker. London: BBC Radio 6 Music. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
6. ^Neringa Klumbyte; Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (2012). Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–1985. Lexington Books. p. 213. ISBN978-0-7391-7584-2.
7. ^John Ashton; Ian Ferguson (27 June 2001). 'Flight from the truth'. The Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
8. ^Jonathan Lethem (27 October 2016). 'It all connects: Adam Curtis and the secret history of everything'. The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
9. ^'HyperNormalisation review (Adam Curtis, BBC iPlayer): A masterfully dark dive into our experience of reality'. The Independent. 18 October 2016.
10. ^'Adam Curtis's Essential Counterhistories'. The New Yorker. 3 November 2016.
11. ^Lyne, Charlie (15 October 2016). 'Hypernormalisation: Adam Curtis plots a path from Syria to Trump, via Jane Fonda'. The Guardian. ISSN0261-3077. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
12. ^''Hypernormalisation': Film Review'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
13. ^Harrison, Phil (6 October 2016). 'HyperNormalisation: Is Adam Curtis, Like Trump, Just A Master Manipulator?'. The Quietus. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
14. ^Jenkins, David (27 October 2016). 'The dirty tricks and shady tactics of Adam Curtis'. Little White Lies. Retrieved 17 May 2018.

The fiscal crisis in New York City and the emergent idea that financial systems could run society; shuttle diplomacy between then-US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Middle Eastern leaders in the Arab-Israeli dispute and the subsequent retreat by Hafez al-Assad of Syria; and the onset of hypernormalisation in the Soviet Union.

The Human Bomb[edit]

Following the United States' involvement in the 1982 Lebanon War, a vengeful al-Assad made an alliance with Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran. They planned to force the US out of the Middle East by encouraging civilians to carry out suicide bombings on American targets in the region, thereby avoiding reprisals. In February 1984, the US withdrew all its troops from Lebanon because, in the words of then-US Secretary of State George P. Shultz, 'we became paralysed by the complexity that we faced'.

Altered States[edit]

By the mid-1980s, banks and corporations were connecting through computer networks to create a hidden system of power, and technological utopians whose roots lay in the counterculture of the 1960s also saw the internet as an opportunity to make an alternative world that was free of political and legal restraints.

Acid Flashback[edit]

John Perry Barlow's vision of cyberspace as the 1990s equivalent of the Acid Tests. Barlow had been part of the LSD (also known as 'acid') counterculture in the 1960s and founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He wrote a manifesto called A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. Addressed to politicians, it declared 'the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose upon us'. Two computer hackers—Phiber Optik and Acid Phreak—knew that in reality corporations were using the internet to exert more control over the lives of people than governments had done in the past, and they demonstrated that hierarchies did exist online by obtaining Barlow's credit record from TRW Inc. and posting it on the internet.

The Colonel[edit]

This chapter describes the Reagan administration using Muammar Gaddafi as a pawn in their public relations (PR) strategy of creating a simplified, morally unambiguous foreign policy by blaming him for the 1985 Rome and Vienna airport attacks and the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing that killed US soldiers, both of which European security services attributed to Syrian intelligence agencies. Gaddafi is described as playing along for the sake of increasing his profile in the Arab world as a revolutionary. The 1986 United States bombing of Libya, 10 days after the disco bombing, is described as an operation carried out mainly for PR reasons, because attacking Syria would have been too risky.

The Truth Is Out There[edit]

This chapter begins with a montage of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings recorded by members of the public in the United States. It argues that the phenomenon surrounding UFOs in the 1990s was born out of a counter-intelligence operation designed to make the public believe that secret airborne high-technology weapons systems tested by the US military during and after the Cold War were alien visitations. Top secret memos forged by the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations were allegedly leaked to ufologists who spread the manufactured conspiracy theory of a government cover-up to the wider public. The method, called perception management, aimed to distract people from the complexities of the real world. American politics are described as having become increasingly detached from reality. Curtis uses the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s as an example of an event that took the West by surprise because reality had become less and less important. A Jane Fondaworkout video is shown to illustrate that socialists had given up trying to change the real world and were instead focusing on the self and encouraging others to do the same. The video is intercut with footage of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, being executed by firing squad and buried following the Romanian Revolution in 1989.

Managed Outcomes[edit]

Ulrich Beck is identified as a left-wing German political theorist. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he saw the world as too complex to change, and Beck asserted that politicians should merely keep the West stable by predicting and avoiding risks. Curtis looks at Aladdin, a computer that manages about 7% of the world's financial assets, analysing the past to anticipate what may happen in the future; and how anti-depressant drugs and social media both stabilise the emotions of individuals.

A Cautionary Tale[edit]

The start of this chapter is about the flaws of trying to predict the future by using data from the past. Curtis tells the story of how a card counter was recruited by Donald Trump to analyse the gambling habits of Akio Kashiwagi at his casino, the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, after Trump had lost millions of dollars to Kashiwagi. In an effort to avert the impending bankruptcy of the casino, a model was devised that predicted a way of recouping the money from Kashiwagi, who lost US$10 million. However, before he could pay, he was killed by yakuza gangsters and the casino went bankrupt, with Trump having to sell many of his assets to the banks.

Attention turns back to the Middle East and the Lockerbie Bombing in 1988. Curtis says that immediately after the bombing, journalists and investigators blamed Syria for carrying out the attack on behalf of Iran in revenge for the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the United States Navy.^[a] It was generally accepted as true until US security agencies announced that Libya was behind the attack. Some journalists and politicians believed that the West had made the volte-face to appease Syria's leader, who the US and the United Kingdom required as an ally in the coming Gulf War.

He focuses on the spread of suicide bombing tactics from Shia to Sunni Islam and the targeting of civilians in Israel by Hamas during the 1990s. The resulting political paralysis led to a stalling of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. It is described as an unintended consequence of Israel's response to the 1992 killing of an Israeli border guard.

A montage is shown of clips from pre-9/11 disaster films in which New York City landmarks are variously destroyed by alien invaders, meteorites, and a tsunami. Curtis argues that such films were characteristic of a mood of uncertainty that pervaded the United States at the end of the 20th century.

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Curtis shows how Muammar Gaddafi was turned into the West's 'new best friend.'

A World Without Power[edit]

The effect of the Iraq war wreaks havoc on the American psyche and people retreat into cyberspace. Judea Pearl creates Bayesian networks that mimic human behaviour. Judea's son, Daniel Pearl is the first American to be beheaded on a video uploaded to YouTube.

Meanwhile, social media algorithms show information that is pleasing to their users and hence does nothing to challenge their beliefs. Despite this, Occupy Wall Street emerges in an attempt to disrupt the system by imitating the leaderless system that the internet was once imagined to become. Using a similar method, the Egyptian revolution of 2011 commenced.

PyQt5 signals and slots Graphical applications (GUI) are event-driven, unlike console or terminal applications. A users action like clicks a button or selecting an item in a list is called an event. If an event takes place, each PyQt5 widget can emit a signal. Signal slot is the core mechanism of Qt and also the mechanism of object communication in PyQt programming.In Qt, the QObject object and all controls in PyQt that inherit from QWidget support the slot mechanism.When the signal is transmitted, the connected slot function is automatically executed.In PyQt5, the signal and slot functions are connected by the object.signal.connect method. Although PyQt5 allows any Python callable to be used as a slot when connecting signals, it is sometimes necessary to explicitly mark a Python method as being a Qt slot and to provide a C signature for it. Each PyQt widget, which is derived from QObject class, is designed to emit ‘signal' in response to one or more events. The signal on its own does not perform any action. Instead, it is ‘connected' to a ‘slot'. The slot can be any callable Python function. The receivers of signals are called Slots in Qt terminology. A number of standard slots are provided on Qt classes to allow you to wire together different parts of your application. However, you can also use any Python function as a slot, and therefore receive the message yourself. Tutorial pyqt5 signals and slots.

Britain, France and the US turn their backs on Muammar Gaddafi once Libyans rise up against him. The US drops bombs using drones, and then footage is shown of Gaddafi being captured by rebels.

Neither Occupy Wall Street nor the Arab Spring turn out very well for the revolutionaries.

In Russia, Vladimir Putin and his cabinet of political technologists create mass confusion. Vladislav Surkov uses ideas from art to turn Russian politics into a bewildering piece of theatre. Donald Trump used the same techniques in his presidential campaign by using language from Occupy Wall Street and the extreme racist right-wing. Curtis asserts that Trump 'defeated journalism' by rendering its fact-checking abilities irrelevant.

The American Left's attempt to resist Trump on the internet had no effect. In fact, they were just feeding the social media corporations who valued their many additional clicks.

Syria's revolution becomes more vicious and violent. The technique of suicide bombing that Curtis argues Hafez al-Assad introduced in order to unite the Middle East has instead torn it apart. Russia uses Surkov's concept of 'non-linear warfare' to fight against the Syrian rebels. Russia claims to leave Syria, but doesn't.

Abu Musab al-Suri in Syria suggests that terrorists should not carry out large-scale attacks such as Osama Bin Laden's, but instead carry out 'random' small-scale attacks throughout the West to create fear and chaos, against which it would be more difficult to retaliate.

Destabilisation of the West's psyche leads to the vote for Brexit and the popularity of Donald Trump.

The film closes with a Barbara Mandrell performance played over a montage.

Poker face A visage lacking any expression that can be interpreted, as in Whenever Betty attended one of her children's performances, she managed to keep a poker face. This term alludes to the facial expression of a poker player who is expert at concealing his feelings about his hand. Poker face idiom phrase. Poker face is an idiom that first appeared in the 1870s. An idiom is a word, group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. We will examine the definition of the expression poker face, where it came from and some examples of its use in sentences.

Don't help me set the table
Cause now there's one less place
I won't lay mama's silver
For a man who won't say grace
If home is where the heart is
Then your home's on the street
Me, I'll read a good book
Turn out the lights and go to sleep

Music[edit]

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Music used at any stage or repeatedly includes:

• Scuba Z – The Vanishing American Family
• Nine Inch Nails – Something I Can Never Have
• '02 Ghosts I' from Ghosts I–IV by Nine Inch Nails
• Yanka Dyagileva – My Sorrow is Bright
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2: VI. Waltz 2, Part 6/8
• Dmitri Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues (Shostakovich) - Prelude No. 1 in C Major
• Ennio Morricone – La Tragedia Di Un Uomo Ridicolo
• Ennio Morricone – Lontano
• Ennio Morricone – The Thing: Humanity, Part 1
• City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra – Poltergeist: Main Theme
• worriedaboutsatan – Blank Tape
• Thomas Ragsdale – Warning Mass
• Pye Corner Audio – The Black Mill Video Tape
• Gavin Miller – Fotograf (part 2)
• Ghosting Season – Far End of the Graveyard (3am version)
• Suicide – Dream Baby Dream
• Her Name Is Calla - Paying for your funeral
• Burial – In McDonalds
• Burial - Dog Shelter
• Burial – Truant
• Burial - Distant Lights
• Barbara Mandrell – Standing Room Only
• Aphex Twin – Blue Calx
• Brian Eno – On Some Faraway Beach
• Cliff Martinez – I'm in the Pink
• Cliff Martinez - Can I Sit Next to You
• Clint Mansell – Welcome to Lunar Industries
• John Perry Barlow and Dražen Bošnjak – A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
• Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No. 1
• Olivier Messiaen – Turangalila Symphony
• Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes
• Béla Bartók - Bluebeard's Castle

Clips[edit]

HyperNormalisation makes extensive use of footage from the BBC Archives and includes material shot specially for the documentary.^[8]

Critical reception[edit]

The Independent described it as 'A rare documentary that respects the viewer's intelligence'.^[9]The New Yorker described it as 'a searching and essential document of our times..'.^[10] In The Guardian, reviewer Charlie Lyne writes, '[this] 165-minute opus makes a feature of its sheer unwieldiness, as Curtis veers from social history to conspiracy theory via the odd rambling bar-room anecdote, like a man who's two-dozen browser tabs into a major Wikipedia binge'.^[11] For The Hollywood Reporter, Stephen Dalton writes, 'A rich gumbo of occult conspiracy theory, dystopian science-fiction thriller and Noam Chomsky-style Marxist critique, Hypernormalisation is highly compelling even when its arguments are not wholly convincing.. This fascinating assemblage of half-explored ideas should inspire curious viewers to conduct further research of their own, which is an entirely healthy and positive response'.^[12] Phil Harrison, in a review for The Quietus, wrote 'it could be argued that Curtis himself is just another master manipulator'.^[13] In Little White Lies, David Jenkins wrote that the film 'reveals [Curtis's] limited range as a filmmaker'.^[14]

Awards and nominations[edit]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

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References[edit]

1. ^Tim Adams (9 October 2016). 'Adam Curtis continues search for the hidden forces behind a century of chaos'. The Guardian. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
2. ^Holly Barrett (22 September 2016). 'New Adam Curtis film HyperNormalisation comes to iPlayer'. Royal Television Society. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
3. ^Brandon Harris (3 November 2016). 'Adam Curtis's essential counterhistories'. The New Yorker. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
4. ^Yurchak, Alexei (23 October 2005). Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. (In-Formation). Princeton University Press. ISBN978-0691121178.
5. ^Adam Curtis (16 October 2016). 'With documentary film-maker Adam Curtis'. Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service (Interview). Interviewed by Jarvis Cocker. London: BBC Radio 6 Music. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
6. ^Neringa Klumbyte; Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (2012). Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–1985. Lexington Books. p. 213. ISBN978-0-7391-7584-2.
7. ^John Ashton; Ian Ferguson (27 June 2001). 'Flight from the truth'. The Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
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External links[edit]

• HyperNormalisation at BBC Programmes
• HyperNormalisation on IMDb

Reviews:

• Adam Curtis on chatbots, A.I. and Colonel Gaddafi at The Register
• Adam Curtis continues search for the hidden forces behind a century of chaos at The Guardian
• Virtual unreality: Adam Curtis on why your life doesn't make sense at BBC Arts
• A masterfully dark dive into our experience of reality at The Independent
• TV Review of the Week: HyperNormalisation at The National

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