In TraumaZone, Adam Curtis takes a haunting look at the dismantling of Russia Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
’s disorientating and feverish chronicling of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a gangster state, we see a shirtless figure on a horse riding away from the camera.
It’s just a random farmer in an obscure corner of the Soviet Union, but the silhouette echoes the famous image ofThis is one of many ominous moments in a stunning and haunting seven-part visual essay on the dismantling of a country and the traumatising of an entire population.
Curtis can be hit and miss. At his best, he can see hidden patterns within the chaos of the modern world. But sometimes he falls victim to the same paranoia that he is critiquing. With Last year’s , for instance, he set out to debunk the cult of the 20th-century conspiracy theory – only to lean into leaps of logic as fanciful as the wackadoodle beliefs he was put beneath the microscope., culled together from hours of BBC footage stretching back to the mid-80s when the Soviet Union was a nuclear empire rusted and rotted from within. For instance, at one point he juxtaposes a Chechen woman performing a traditional dance with teenagers shaking their hair to hip-hop.
It’s a clever contrast. Yet it’s unclear what, precisely, Curtis is trying to say. Beyond making the banal point that in Russia the ancient and modern exist side by side. Of course, you could communicate the same idea by mashing together Morris dancers and the front row of a grime concert. And what deeper truth would that lay bare?
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