I also like the fact that it was released the day of the inauguration. What follows is a copy/pasted press release from the BBC:

The highly anticipated new work from journalist and Bafta award-winning filmmaker, Adam Curtis will premiere exclusively on BBC iPlayer on 11 February 2021.

This new series of films tells the story of how we got to the strange days we are now experiencing. And why both those in power - and we - find it so difficult to move on.

The films trace different forces across the world that have led to now, not just in the West, but in China and Russia as well. It covers a wide range - including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opiods, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And explores whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really just part of the new system of power.

Adam Curtis says: “These strange days did not just happen. We - and those in power - created them together.”

Can't Get You Out Of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World is a BBC Film and BBC Three production for BBC iPlayer. Produced by Sandra Gorel, Executive Producer is Rose Garnett for BBC Film.

EH

Full synopsis We are living through strange days.

Across Britain, Europe and America societies have become split and polarised not just in politics but across the whole culture. There is anger at the inequality and the ever growing corruption - and a widespread distrust of the elites.

And into this has come the pandemic that has brutally dramatised those divisions.

But despite the chaos there is a paralysis - a sense that no one knows how to escape from this.

This new series of films by Adam Curtis tell the story of how we got to this place. And why both those in power - and we - find it so difficult to move on.

The films trace different forces across the world that have led to now, not just in the West, but in China and Russia as well.

It covers a wide range - including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opiods, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really part of the new system of power.

And the films are told in a different way - they are an emotional history of what went on inside the heads of all kinds of people.

Because in the age of the individual - what you felt and what you wanted and what you dreamed of were going to become the driving force across the world.

What was forgotten in that age was that much of what we feel is also formed by the society around us. Above all by the power structures.

And now those structures are decaying - everywhere - their weakness and uncertainty makes us feel empty and frightened of the future.

That is what is paralysing us - and blocking us from imagining different kinds of societies and a better future

Can't Get You Out Of My Head is an epic history that shows how and why that happened. How we made this particular world. And that it was not inevitable.

  • vsm1r [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I am sure that every episode is going to hit me right in the feels,I mean just the trailer, specially the song and the lyrics and how he chose where to cut to the girls dancing, just please listen to the song and read the lyrics:

    You sit in your room, and you talk to the wall

    You're feeling small but still have a ball

    And you can't explain what's anyway in vain

    And you paint your face and dress in black

    Wear your shades and still can't express

    The way you feel about a lousy fill

    And you dance until the morning

    All by yourself

    And somehow you know

    You're not alone

    And you dance until the morning

    All by yourself

    And somehow you know

    You're not alone

    You're playing pool against yourself

    And you look at your watch

    At a quarter to twelve

    And you still didn't win against yourself

    You think it's time to quit the game

    Maybe change your name and search for fame

    And you still have a ball and you don't care after all

    And they catch you hiding in a love affair

    And you know again

    You're not alone

    And they catch you hiding in a love affair

    And you know again

    You're not alone

    God ain't jive and I can feel his love

    Run through the strings of my guitar

    Just watch out and see what it's all about

    And still I stand my foot in my hand

    Talking to my wall and still don't care at all

    Just having a ball

    And heavy after all

    I've borrowed your time I'm sorry I called

    Forget what I've said

    But remember

    You're not alone

    I've borrowed your time I'm sorry I called

    Forget what I've said

    But remember

    You're not alone

    I don't know why but this reached deep into me and set my soul on fire, I mean all of it the title, the images and the meanings that I feel I sort of know where he is going with, it was just a splendor for me. It had the same effect, but set to a thousand to that sequence in Bitter Lake where the guy is doing his surprisingly well-executed martial arts moves with runaway from Kanye blaring, it was so beautiful, same here but like with lonely utopian dreams. Now, considering considering that in the synopsis there is the disclaimer "And the films are told in a different way - they are an emotional history of what went on inside the heads of all kinds of people." Lets just say I am going to need the prep of Amber Tamblyn minus the vibrator.