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- 2002
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 14 m
- 2002
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 14 m
Summary This documentary presents the latest in Chomsky's thinking, through a lengthy interview and a series of public talks that he gave in New York and California during the spring of 2002.
Directed By: John Junkerman
- 2002
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 14 m
- 2002
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 14 m
Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
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Summary This documentary presents the latest in Chomsky's thinking, through a lengthy interview and a series of public talks that he gave in New York and California during the spring of 2002.
Directed By: John Junkerman
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Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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31% Positive
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54% Mixed
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15% Negative
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2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
48
31% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
54% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
15% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
At 73, Chomsky seems to understand everything about power and aggression -- except, that is, its centrality to human nature.
A searching and wide-ranging debate has unfolded about America's response to terrorism and, more broadly, about the history and future of its role in the world. Mr. Junkerman's film is best understood as a necessary, if partisan, text in that continuing argument.
Chomsky deserves a more thoughtful documentary than Power and Terror, and in fact he got it in 1993's "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media" --The film's main flaw is the absence of other voices -- From a cinematic point of view, two sides of an issue are always better than one.
Plays more like a disjointed radio show with pictures -- The power of Chomsky's intellect and message are poorly served when pigeonholed by the hagiography of some of his supporters.
Offers a lively introduction to the highly articulate political dissident and to his controversial views on 9/11.
Bumrushed onto American screens like late-breaking news, the Japanese TV doc Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times is a relatively thin slice of Chomskiana -- a chapter from any of the man's many interview volumes, or even an hour of his C-SPAN dialogues, has more political substance.
Its important if inflammatory message will bore all but Chomsky's fellow travelers to death.
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Production Company
Siglo
Release Date Nov 22, 2002
Duration 1 h 14 m
Rating Not Rated
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