29-05-2013, 06:00 PM
Malcolm Pryce Wrote:Thanks for this review, Jan, it sounds amazing. I will be going out of my way to watch it.
Malcolm - thanks. I very much welcome your thoughts too, and hope you will post them here at DPF.
I hope other members will post their responses too.
I expect there will be disagreements, frustrations, anger at this and praise for that.
Many will have a very different reaction to the series from mine.
I recorded a couple of the episodes, and although as a filmmaker I'm fairly good at reading documentaries first time I found the second and third watches to be very rewarding.
Ultimately Stone is attempting to convey hugely complex ideas and to reveal new historical narratives to a mass audience. Stone makes the viewer work very hard. These are not easy, familar, watches. These documentaries are laying out the evidence for an "untold history", which spans the globe.
The series is far from perfect, But at its best, it is pretty damn good.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war