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The Society of the Spectacle

1974 · 90 min

A dense, essayistic collage of found images and aphorisms that demands patience and rewards it with a cold, clarifying anger.

Directed by
Guy Debord
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Guy Debord
Overview
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

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Directed by
Guy Debord
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Guy Debord
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Tone
  • cynicalstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • power
  • media
  • class
  • corruption
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness6
Complexity9
Emotional weight5

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Guy Debord
Written by
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Starring
Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Guy Debord, Jacques Duclos, Robert Fabre, Nino Ferrer, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Johnny Hallyday
Runtime
90 min
Country
France
Languages
German, French, English

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