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Synopsis: HyperNormalisation tells the extraordinary story of how we got to this strange time of great uncertainty and confusion - where those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed - and have no idea what to do. And, where events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control - from Donald Trump to Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis, and random bomb attacks. It explains not only why these chaotic events are happening - but also why we, and our politicians, cannot understand them. The film shows that what has happened is that all of us in the West - not just the politicians and the journalists and the experts, but we ourselves - have retreated into a simplified, and often completely fake version of the world. But because it is all around us, we accept it as normal. From BBCiPlayer
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Adam Curtis
Production: BBC
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
8.3
Year:
2016
166 min
5,936 Views


on the chaotic politics of the Middle East.

But to manage it,

he knew that he was going to have to

deal with President Assad of Syria.

President Assad was convinced

that there would only ever be

a real and lasting peace

between the Arabs and Israel

if the Palestinian refugees were

allowed to return to their homeland.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians

were living in exile in Syria,

as well as in the Lebanon and Jordan.

Have you found that the

Palestinians here want to integrate

with the Syrians at all?

Oh, no. No, never.

They don't want...

Not here or neither in

Lebanon or in Jordan, never.

No, because they want to stay

as a whole, as... Palestinian.

As... They call themselves, "Those Who Go Back" -

"al-a'iduun", you say in Arabic.

Assad also believed that such a peace

would strengthen the Arab world.

But Kissinger thought that strengthening the Arabs

would destabilise his balance of power.

So, he set out to do the very opposite -

to fracture the power of the Arab countries,

by dividing them and breaking their alliances,

so they would keep each other in check.

Kissinger now played a double game.

Or as he termed it, "constructive ambiguity".

In a series of meetings, he persuaded Egypt

to sign a separate agreement with Israel.

But at the same time, he led Assad to believe

that he was working for a wider peace agreement,

one that WOULD include the Palestinians.

In reality, the Palestinians were ignored.

They were irrelevant to the structural balance

of the global system.

The hallmark of Kissinger's thinking

about international politics

is its structural design.

Everything is always connected

in his mind to everything else.

But his first thoughts are on that level,

on this structural global balance of power level.

And as he addresses questions of human dignity,

human survival, human freedom...

...I think they tend to come into his mind

as an adjunct of the play of

nations at the power game.

When Assad found out the truth, it was too late.

In a series of confrontations

with Kissinger in Damascus,

Assad raged about this treachery.

He told Kissinger that what he had done

would release demons hidden under

the surface of the Arab world.

Kissinger described their meetings.

"Assad's controlled fury," he wrote,

"was all the more impressive for its eerily cold,

"seemingly unemotional, demeanour."

Assad now retreated.

He started to build a giant palace

that loomed over Damascus...

...and his belief that it would be

possible to transform the Arab world

began to fade.

A British journalist, who knew Assad, wrote...

"Assad's optimism has gone.

"A trust in the future has gone.

"What has emerged instead is

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Adam Curtis

Kevin Adam Curtis (born 26 May 1955) is a British documentary film-maker. Curtis says that his favourite theme is "power and how it works in society", and his works explore areas of sociology, psychology, philosophy and political history. Curtis describes his work as journalism that happens to be expounded via the medium of film. His films have won four BAFTAs. He has been closely associated with the BBC throughout his career. more…

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