You should, if you have the time, watch the bizarre and uncomfortable "Traumazone" series that Adam Curtis assembled in 2022 from BBC footage of the collapse of Soviet Russia - it feels like a sneak preview.
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Five hours of raw footage, cut together in a linear timeline depicting the fall of the USSR, with little narration; only title cards that are no longer than a sentence describe the scenes.
It is unsettling, bizarre, hilarious, ominous, and familiar, with a glacial pace that somehow feels ambient but urgent. Many contradictions, of course...to match the subject matter.
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