Bitter Lake

Fantastic film. While Curtis is clearly subverting the documentary genre, the view he presents of the modern world (not only in Bitter Lake but in his other works) is a fascinatingly bleak and much-needed reminder that we humans do not know as much about history and the human mind as we often pretend.

We're in the last few days before this goes down from iPlayer (where it's been an online exclusive because the BBC was too chicken to show something so profound on an actual TV channel).

Warm up those VPNs and proxies if you're outside of the UK.