HyperNormalisation tells the extraordinary story of how we got to this strange time of great uncertainty and confusion - where those who are supposed to be in power
are paralysed - and have no idea what to do. And| where events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control - from Donald Trump to Brexit| the War in
Syria| the endless migrant crisis| and random bomb attacks. It explains not only why these chaotic events are happening - but also why we| and our politicians|
cannot understand them. The film shows that what has happened is that all of us in the West - not just the politicians and the journalists and the experts| but we
ourselves - have retreated into a simplified| and often completely fake version of the world. But because it is all around us| we accept it as normal. From
another ambitious Curtis essay on media exposing how modern politics ideology becomes what it is now through the technological and artificial manipulation of perception