Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Ceský Sen
[Czech Dream]
(2003)

RATING:60%
FORMAT:DVD



Clever-yet-contradictory attack on marketing and advertising; claiming we are passively manipulated, despite market-research testing proving we are not that manipulable; otherwise, such research would not be conducted.

The marketers cannot justify their jobs since they readily agree to tell the Czech public lies; while refusing to openly admit they dissemble for high-paying clients; precisely because of this money. Their arrogant, sophistical arguments reveal poorly-concealed guilt.

People prefer lies because they smell sweet – unlike truth. Attempts to sell things people do not need gives capitalism a bad name, but people choose to buy crap (since it fills holes in empty lives) and such sales provide large-scale employment. A satire both on the desire for something-for-nothing and the Czech dream of European Union membership motivated by the same reason.

Posted by Frank TALKER™ at 11:24
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



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Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



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Führerprinzip:



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