All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Wonderfully challenging. But what should it be called? A documentary? An essay? A film? Why #allwatchedover wasn't trending on twitter the night it was aired, and #embarrassingfatbodies was, could possibly be due to the fact that to describe it in 140 characters would be a gross injustice. At times confusing, at other times interesting and at further times downright terrifying, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace tells the story of how 'machines' have changed us in the last 50 years. On one level it is a strangely beautiful documentary and it looks visually different to documentaries of it's type, of which I would include Horizon and perhaps even programmes like A History of Modern Britain. Rather than relying on lengthy, talk-to-the-camera pieces in exotic and/or culturally significant locations, the story is narrated by a face-less Adam Curtis and is set to the kind of stock footage you would expect to see being played in a Utopian mental asylum. As someone w...