The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? - An Adam Curtis Film [Amaray Case]

This documentary is a fascinating take on the means by which (mostly western) societies have been governed since the War. Made shortly before the Banking Crisis, what it has to say is still relevant, although had it been made a couple of years later, this would no doubt have added to it. The Trap should make interesting viewing for any social scientist. My only criticism of it as a piece of work is that it uses a great deal of inductive reasoning to explain cause and effect. For example, the use of the developing "Anti-Psychiatry Movement" and large-scale testing of self-diagnosed mental states led inevitably to everyone measuring themselves against a pre-supposed 'normal' state. This is almost certainly true (note use of the term, 'almost').My more serious criticism is not of the documentary, but the production of it, which is obviously a knock-off. The quality of the sound and picture is below-par (albeit only slightly) but this is worsened by the lack of subtitles for anyone hard of hearing. What really gives the game away, though, is a television announcer's voice sounding over the credits!I suppose I should give credit to anyone making this documentary available; not releasing it officially (and more professionally) as a DVD I think is a missed opportunity, but this review is not to try to explain why this could be.

This Documentary does "Conflict" a bit between his "The power of Nightmares" DVD. Both are MUCH WATCH IMHO anyways.Adam Curtis's Century of the Self DVD. OMG. That one is still giving me nightmares. Knowing that Propaganda/PR has been monkeying around with the American Subconscious since 1907? Well.. scares the hell out of me.This DVD "The Trap" is a simple recording right off of the TV. The 2nd Documentary you hear the BBC announcer talk about the next upcoming program. But you're not buying a high quality movie.. you are buying a mind opening documentary.I really love all the old footage of computers. Guys crawling around under the raised floors. (Because back in the old days they had to cool the floor as they over clocked the TUBES) LOL..I might not 100% concur with MR. Curtis's conclusions on this one. But it does give me a lot to think about. For sure "A Century of the Self" DVD was his best to date.I'm happy that a "Few" Americans have discovered Adam Curtis. His 3rd acts nearly always need "Work". But his Documentary's are some of the best I've ever seen. Of course he should get the Master Tapes from BBC and make a proper DVD burn. But hey.. it is the content right?GENE

The Trap, along with The Century of the Self, and The Power of Nightmares, are three must see documentaries in order to understand de basic ideological layers that hold our time, that have formatted the way we consume, the way we perceive terrorism and especially, in The Trap, our idea of freedom as an individual. It has tons of information, and should be seen at least twice. It is harder to see than The century of the self, because the Century is based on information and communication which we can relate to immediately, being TV, radio, and newspaper consumers. The Trap goes deeper: how was the knitting done, of this cobweb we now call freedom, and where this system may lead us to. Adam Curtis documentaries are the red pill in The Matrix. You have to have a certain courage to go in there, because it questions things we take for granted and were actually manufactured.

If one wishes to understand how and why the rats race, how work has become defined, why people buy all that crap, Adam Curtis's the Trap is for you. Curtis goes behind the curtain exposes the faulty thinking in a right wing coup from the sixties. He looks at how a fallacy becomes a right wing Juggernaut driving the Cold War and Now the corporate state that intrudes into every corner of your and my lives.One see's oneself reduced to numbers monitored by surveillance, manipulated by psychologists and ruled by empty suits. Watch it and find out what is behind the curtain and why it cannot be turned off. The Trap proves one's nightmare's might be true. Be aware...

While the production values of these recordings are not good, the information make it worth enduring these poor quality copies.

Great interdisciplinary institutional analysis of the unintended consequences of the proliferation of game-theeory and the information processing model of human beings into all social sciences and government.

Excellent.

The disk arrived in very good condition and played well.