Ricky Gervais & Eric Bana | Special Correspondents (A Movie About Fake News)

Special Correspondents is worth a watch even for those uninterested in the synthetic news broadcast 24/7 in the corporate media. It's humourous, even hilarious once or twice and unveils in a simple manner how easy it is to construct news events like Sandy Hook, Boston, Paris, Brussels and whatever gay disco/runaway lorry was the nonsense for last month.

The movie is a good sequel to Wag The Dog which was one of the first to dramatise the use of fake news, staged events, false flags and crisis actors. As ever with Hollywood it portrays peaceful Ecuador as a war ravaged country for housing Julian Assange in their London Embassy and for calling out the US War Machine for what it is. A nation scared of its own shadow.

Capturing The Friedmans

The 2003 documentary Capturing the Friedmans, about a son and father who abused children in their home-based computer classes is a freak show. 

In some ways it acts as a spearhead for false memory syndrome (a discredited psychiatric "syndrome") to undermine children's testimony despite the admission of the the protagonists Jesse and Arnold Friedman to abusing children. The film's director Andrew Jarecki does a good job of muddying the waters as the above clip reveals. 

The full documentary is here on Youtube but cannot be embedded. It's well worth watching. My own feelings are the most insincere characters are David Friedman who changed his name to David Kaye and is a professional clown entertaining the children of the rich famous in New York, and pulling in six figures for it; and the the only victim to record his testimony on film identified anonymously and silhouetted as Gregory Dough. Both of them come across as more insincere than Jesse and Arnold who admitted to abusing children.

One striking element in this predominantly Jewish movie, is the memory correlation with german prison camp survivors often called the holocaust. I was on a train, I was in trauma, I was in a prison camp against my will, people died and therefore the gas chambers are real and so is the figure of 6 million.

JUDE - 密室謀殺事件 Chamber

Canto-Trip Hop/Hong Kong Portishead?