{"id":2397,"date":"2009-07-05T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2021-09-12T14:37:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T18:37:39","slug":"the-power-of-nightmares-2004-adam-curtis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2397","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Nightmares (2004, Adam Curtis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another 3-hour Adam Curtis documentary (no Yo La Tengo songs this time) and again it&#8217;s one of the most amazing, revelatory things I&#8217;ll watch all year.  This time I didn&#8217;t take notes like I did with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/483\">The Trap<\/a><\/em>, so I&#8217;ll just have to take my word for it.  I do remember that the founder of neoconservatism was a huge fan of television, especially Gunsmoke and Perry Mason.  And that Al Qaeda doesn&#8217;t exist &#8211; or it didn&#8217;t until we invented it &#8211; I remember that.  I wish I&#8217;d watched this when it came out.  But however depressing it is that I&#8217;ve spent the last five years not knowing most of this stuff, that&#8217;s balanced by the joy of watching it when neo-cons aren&#8217;t in power in the U.S. at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>SEPT 2021: Watched again, shortly before 9\/11 XX &#8211; it holds up.  Katy showed the third hour to her students and blew some minds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image09\/powerofnightmares.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another 3-hour Adam Curtis documentary (no Yo La Tengo songs this time) and again it&#8217;s one of the most amazing, revelatory things I&#8217;ll watch all year. This time I didn&#8217;t take notes like I did with The Trap, so I&#8217;ll just have to take my word for it. I do remember that the founder of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[881,882,354,31],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-adam-curtis","tag-bbc","tag-conspiracy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14493,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/14493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}