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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Manufacturing Dissent!, 31 Aug 2004
This film is possibly the most eye opening peice of film I've ever seen. I was always a little sceptical about Chomsky, his politics, his opinions, and his intentions. I was also growing increasingly tired of the way the left of politics was using him as a sort of "demi-god". But this film put an end to those thoughts. Not in a "pro-chomsky propaganda" way, just in the clarity of the editing and film making. the film is beautifully gelled together making perfect sense of the reems and reems of chomsky material out there. This film also cleared up that horrible, messy affair with that idiotic french "Intellectual". The "Dutch Debate" has to be the funniest, most entertaining piece of film i've seen in years. And considering it involved Noam Chomsky, that's saying something! But my favourate segment of this video is it's insight into East Timor. Iterviews with Timorese citizens, Timorese activists, active American/Canadian journalists, as well as Chomshy, make this segment very enlightning even to an avid follower of the situation. As well as Media, Chomsky (et all) also go into good detail on other issues such as: Jingoism, Independant Media, Corporatism, International affairs, (Spanish Civil War, Israel etc.) Anarchosydicalism, Linguistics, Vietnam Protests and Chomsky's beginnings as a Dissenter. Amoung a lot of other things. This film really has to be seen to be believed.
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