The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Adam Curtis
Alain Enthoven
John Nash
Friedrich Von Hayek
Morton Schatzman
Clancy Sigal
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Takes on one of the politicians' favorite rhetorical tools--the notion of freedom--and finds that it has been bastardized by not only American neo-conservatives, but a bevy of academics and researchers. Explores the argument that contemporary Western society is on the verge of authoritarianism due to the paranoid theories developed to fight the Cold War. Rational choice theory, which sees humans as self-serving robots, has become the defining assumption for the power elites. In turn, we are nowhere near as free as we think we are.
Director
Adam Curtis
Cast
Alain Enthoven
John Nash
Friedrich Von Hayek
Morton Schatzman
Clancy Sigal
Thomas Schelling
James Buchanan
Madsen Pirie
David Rosenhan
Paul Mchugh
Robert Spitzer
Jerome Wakefield
Tom Peters
Robert Reich
Philip Mirowski
Anthony Jay
Thomas Frank
James Strachan
Arthur Levitt
Kevin Phillips
Brian Ferguson
Stuart Hall
Michael Ledeen
Yevgeny Kiselyov
Adam Curtis
Crew
Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis
Andrew Godwin
James Harkin
Lucy Kelsall
Lucy Kelsall
Stephen Lambert
Nick Netsall
Tamer Osman
Niall Podson
Stuart Robertson
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 2007
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Nonfiction Features of 2007) September 27-October 12, 2007.
Released in United States 2007 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Nonfiction Features of 2007) September 27-October 12, 2007.)
