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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024
Very cool footage but spends a lot of time making undercooked connections through linguistic or symbolic associations. A clip of a CIA goon smoking a pipe connects to Magrite, who's a Belgian artist, and his work is in the MOMA, and they later supported AbEx, and so on. Feels like an undergrad essay where you make a pun and just keep going with it (The Laboring Class: Pregnancy as Work and the Means of Reproduction).
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Zero Dark Thirty 2012
The CIA's for-us-by-us feature on the intelligence agency's hunt for Bin Laden is dumb enough to explain why half the military & intelligence establishment got their money taken by Elizabeth Holmes. Bigelow's Mary Sue, Maya, is a fictional composite of off-the-record CIA self-congratulations and Silicon Valley hagiographies. The film's overt celebration of the courage to commit extreme violence, starve, and sexually humiliate restrained prisoners is not as heinous as its worship of the mythical individual who overcomes all the naysayers and…
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