4.5. It is precisely the foregrounded cinematic staginess that enables the manifestation of the reality of the staged. Under the guise of a period film (with obligatory patriotic overtone no less), the question has never been how a specific historical understanding or a particular ideology plays out, but rather, what is espionage/deception/bet
Solid interviewing, concise analysis. Consumerism is nothing but manufactured, by corporations big or small lusting for 'success' and profit. Consumerism has hollowed out people's minds and lives. There is no greater meaning than owning. There is no greater identity than being a consumer. The vast spreading and normalisation of consumerism may well be one of the most fundamental problems of capitalist modernity.