The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

The Lonely Robot

Directed by Adam Curtis
S1 • E2    Mar 17, 2007    60m
The second episode reiterated many of the ideas of the first, but developed the theme that the drugs such as Prozac and lists of psychological symptoms which might indicate anxiety or depression were being used to normalize behavior and make humans behave more predictably, like machines.

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Cast of The Lonely Robot

  • Adam CurtisNarrator
  • Yevgeny KiselyovSelf
  • Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)
  • Tony BlairSelf (archive footage)
  • Boris YeltsinSelf (archive footage)
  • Vladimir PutinSelf (archive footage)
  • Margaret ThatcherSelf (archive footage)
  • Bill ClintonSelf (archive footage)
  • Adam CurtisDirector / Writer

 

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