You didn't like it enough to change your name though, no? Maybe I'll stick to the snow myself then too.

Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on January 13, 2021, 10:30:58 AM
You didn't like it enough to change your name though, no? Maybe I'll stick to the snow myself then too.
I can't remember...  ::)

Actually watched that the other night.

It's not bad, if not entirely what I was expecting. It focuses on social conditions and consequences and to that end you do see the human cost a lot better than in some other pieces with a more general focus on that era. A lot more personal interviews with people affected. In that sense it did shed light on some areas I hadn't seen before. I would have liked to see them going more in depth on the higher political decisions that led to the situation, i.e the CIA and FBI operations, the Sandanista situation was very interesting but really felt like a footnote. The prison statistics at the end are frightening.


Related, spotted this was up on YouTube last night, remember seeing it when it came out. Grim doesn't even begin to cover it. Prescription opiates ravaging a small town in West Virginia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5xAu1csU_c

Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on January 14, 2021, 11:35:59 AMRelated, spotted this was up on YouTube last night, remember seeing it when it came out. Grim doesn't even begin to cover it. Prescription opiates ravaging a small town in West Virginia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5xAu1csU_c
Which brung me to dis....

https://youtu.be/nkGiFpJC9LM

Will check out Crack later. In relation to that and the prison stats etc there's a great doc from a few years ago by David Simon called The House I Live In.

Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on January 14, 2021, 11:38:29 AM

Which brung me to dis....

https://youtu.be/nkGiFpJC9LM

That looks genuinely disturbing. Started playing without sound here came back with a cup of coffee to be confronted by it.


"Dreamland" by Sam Quinones is well worth a read for anyone who wants to know more about the opioid crisis in the US.




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I watched that last night, it was pretty good. A bad bastard he was.

Watched "Echo In The Canyon". Fairly pedestrian and safe but still reasonably enjoyable history of the Laurel Canyon scene in the 1960s. There's a singer, Jade Castrinos, who does a cover of The Mamas & The Papas "Go Where You Wanna Go" with Jakob Dylan - she can belt out a fucking tune. Never heard of her before - appears to be a session singer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRVFBQHBUls

#25 January 16, 2021, 12:26:35 AM Last Edit: January 16, 2021, 12:53:09 AM by Black Shepherd Carnage
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on January 14, 2021, 11:35:59 AM
Actually watched that the other night.

It's not bad, if not entirely what I was expecting. It focuses on social conditions and consequences and to that end you do see the human cost a lot better than in some other pieces with a more general focus on that era. A lot more personal interviews with people affected. In that sense it did shed light on some areas I hadn't seen before. I would have liked to see them going more in depth on the higher political decisions that led to the situation, i.e the CIA and FBI operations, the Sandanista situation was very interesting but really felt like a footnote. The prison statistics at the end are frightening.

A good summation. Just watched it there tonight, and several aspects felt like footnotes; maybe it just tried to tackle too many angles for a single documentary as opposed to series of three or four. The Netflix doc specifically about bias in the incarceration system, '13th', suffers less from that, and goes deeper into some of those "footnotes"

I enjoyed 13th. The bit about ALEC had me stumped. Unthinkably corrupt.

Currently rewatching The Century of Self by Adam Curtis. Had watched the first 2 parts a few years ago but never finished it. It's all up on YouTube. As with above it ties in with the total disregard and contempt for the general public by politicians and big business.

In the political domain, I personally have never seen anything to compare with Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares, and The Trap. They're like the Carl Sagan's Cosmos of geopolitical eye-openers.

Been really neglecting the documentaries of late. Must rectify that soon. At one stage it was all I was watching.

Out of what is in this thread I think I've seen none of them

"Operation Odessa" - The story of a few lads from Miami acquiring ex-Soviet military vehicles for the Cali cartel.  Lunatic level shit.

On Netflix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWQWc0FXkG4