The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

The Lonely Robot

Miniseries    Episode 2
March 18, 2007    60m
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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.
Directed By
Adam Curtis
Written By
Adam Curtis

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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)

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