Description
Out of the carnage in Europe 50 years ago, the Allies
selected certain memories. They used them to build the official version
of the good war. This film is about how that happened. It tells why
certain memories have to be buried and forgotten because they
contradicted the optimism of the big historical picture.
The Living
Dead (subtitled Three Films About the Power of the Past) was the
second major documentary made by the film-maker Adam Curtis.
The Attic
In
this episode, the Imperial aspirations of Margaret Thatcher were
examined. The way in which Mrs Thatcher used public relations in an
attempt to emulate Winston Churchill in harking back to Britain’s
“glorious past” to fulfil a political or national end. The title is a
reference to the attic flat at the top of 10 Downing Street, which was
created during Thatcher’s period refurbishment of the house, which did
away with the Prime Minister’s previous living quarters on lower floors.
Scenes from The Innocents (film) the adaptation of The Turn of the
Screw by Henry James are intercut with Thatcher’s reign.
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