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If someone who has never seen a Watkins film asks you what he is all about, then show them this. It is by no means top-tier Watkins, but it is wholy representative of his content and form as a filmmaker. In terms of content; nuclear proliferation, mass audio visual media, surveillance, art as struggle, and in-group fighting relative to the State. In terms of form; use of multiple languages, layering of sound and image, direct addressing of the camera, and diegetic narrator/MC.

A very strange and unfocused film that never gets off the ground. It seems to be about the risk of losing freedom and about the tendency towards a kind of new world order (well they got that right), but the circumstances are never clarified and nothing really happens. Watkins' method just doesn't seem to work at all here.