A surface-level, condescendingly simple documentary about images and the modern world. Our Fantastic Machine review:
You can’t deny that the creation of images, thanks to everything from the TV we watch to the social media we participate in, is one of the most prevalent and important facets of our daily lives. But you don’t have to explain it likeAnd the King Said, What a Fantastic Machinestaged and filmed—is a bad undergrad media studies paper, given shape and movement by directors Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck.
Is it easy to note that Méliès’ illusory stop tricks led directly to teens putting similar cuts in their TikToks, without them needing to know? Sure. To remind us that the moving image empowers dictators, plopping down footage of Stalin, Hitler, Trump and Putin? Definitely. These bland clips ask us, “Did you know that movies could be propaganda?” That they could beTriumph of the Will
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