adam curtis film-serie handler om frygtens politik :

Var Sovjetunionen som - Ondskabens imperium - en illusion? Er fremstillingen af Al-Qaeda som et verdensomspaendende terrornetvaerk en fiktion skabt af politikere, der har fundet en ny rolle ved at love at beskytte os mod mareridt?

Det er tesen i Adam Curtis dokumentarserie - Frygtens politik - fra BBC. Serien fortaeller, hvordan frygt er kommet til at dominere politikken i ikke bare den vestlige verden, men i hele verden - og at meget af den frygt er baseret paa en illusion. Blandt andet er mareridtsvisionen om et skjult terrornetvaerk for en stor del blevet overdrevet og fordrejet af politikerne.


filmen vil blive vist i cannes, men udenfor konkurrence, saa den kan desvaerre ikke faa de gyldne palmer, som den burde, paa linie med michael moores film.



The Power of Nightmares, a three-hour BBC documentary directed by Adam Curtis, is arguably the most important film about the "war on terrorism" since the events of September 11. It is more intellectually engaging, more historically probing and more provocative than any of its rivals, including Fahrenheit 9/11. But although it has been shown at Cannes and at a few film festivals in the United States, it has yet to find an American distributor, and for understandable reasons. The documentary asserts that Al Qaeda is largely a phantom of the imagination of the US national security apparatus. Indeed, The Power of Nightmares seeks nothing less than to reframe the past several decades of American foreign policy, from the Soviet menace of the 1970s to the Al Qaeda threat of today, to argue that neoconservatives in the American foreign policy establishment have vastly exaggerated those threats in their quest to remake the world in the image of the United States.

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