4.5/5 Sterne auf ScreenCritix!
Mad as a box of frogs but thoroughly entertaining, we learn about freedom, privacy, identity, resistance, the markets, capitalism and the political left and right.
Sometimes in life, you can get the timing just right, there is no fortune telling involved or any strategy employed, you just end up in the right place at the right time. With the current political scandal involving Cambridge Analytics and Facebook, it seems director Johannes Grenzfurthner has struck gold with his timely documentary, Glossary Of Broken Dreams that he managed to make for just $10k.Grenzfurthner’s “glossary” doesn’t just stick to dictionary definitions; it skewers the way we interact with these concepts in the digital wild west. He looks at how the “Market” has evolved into a globalized playground where the disillusioned seek salvation in unregulated, offshore spaces. It’s the same psychological loop found when an internet user navigates toward an utländska casino, hoping that a shift in jurisdiction might finally offer a fair shake at the broken promise of upward mobility. This isn’t just about the gamble; it’s a case study in how we seek freedom by exiting the very systems that claim to protect us, only to find another layer of the same capitalist machinery.