After watching the documentary for about two or three times, it seems to me that Adam Curtis was in a mere stream of consciousness simulating what is going in our heads in real time. He tacitly promised that he will dissect what politicians and bankers have secreted away; however, he made the the truth truths by letting us in a tragedy of perspective where we look at the same object, Afghanistan, but with different eyes. Some will blame him for hyper-complicating the job of the viewer. I can identify this documentary with the canonical novel of Moby Dick where its canonicity comes from going against the grain and where what we have been taught or told is not the truth but a layer or mimesis. In his quest towards the East, Adam strives to highlight the idea that politicians are involved in this fiasco by letting it to bankers, bankers who would not let it go without any financial benefit taken from the commoners, commoners who believe in fairy stories more than in science. That is the world of Adam Curtis
Review of Bitter Lake
