Videocracy (2009)

Name: Videocracy
Released: 2009
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 6.5

1 h 25 min2009

Videocracy er heimildarmynd sem fjallar um hvernig ítalskt samfélag er orðið gegnsýrt af því hvernig skoðunum og pólitík er stjórnað af „myndbandaræði“, þ.e.

67%

All ages

Plot

In a country where bella figura is a national pastime, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is the maestro of media manipulation. Having risen to political primacy with the aid of his Mediaset empire, he now controls 90% of the bel paese’s television channels including the state-run RAI network. Quantity, it seems, does not equal quality. Fed on a diet of semi-naked dancing girls, inane competitions and rickety reality shows built around the most ridiculous of premises, is it any wonder that Italians are becoming a nation of fame-hungry wannabes?