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It's so good. It's hard to recommend a nearly 3 hour documentary to people, but I did the same thing: watched it in bursts. If you don't know, he has other documentaries, all worth a watch. He's on some other level.
I found his documentary 'Hypernormalization' when I first started torrenting stuff and I can't believe that it is from 2016! I had read about it from recommendations from people and forums and wanted to get it but couldn't access it so I found a torrent for it. All of it felt like 20 years ago because the quality and style of the documentary is very vintage, as if it were produced in the 80s or 90s because a lot of the stock footage is from the BBC archives. He didn't need a lot of fancy visuals in order to carry on a very informative and insightful discussion on the history of society and our way of thinking over the past 60 years.
To me Adam Curtis is to society/politics/history ... in the same way that David Attenborough is to ecology
Adam Curtis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis
You are right and I should go back on his documentaries again ... I had been wanting to watch more of his documentaries before but I had forgotten about it all. Thanks for the reminder!