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The Spirit of '45 is a 2013 documentary film by British director Ken Loach, focused on and celebrating the radical changes in post-war Britain under the Labour government of Clement Attlee, which came to power in 1945. Relying primarily on archive footage and interviews, and without a narrative voiceover, the film recounts the endemic poverty in prewar Britain, the sense of optimism that followed victory in World…
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The movie in review here, is a reminder to me that the idea of "documentary" is in itself elastic and potentially a tool to distort the "reality" it supposedly documents, into an ideal understanding of that "reality". This is also known as propaganda. After watching this it would be a good thing to point out a few aspects to look for in one-sided documentaries, designed to skew your idea of reality to conform with a…More
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