Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:It's not necessarily a documentary but the entire Vice series is incredibly well done and insightful. They just released a new one about the problem with the US prison system that's just so fantastic and quite moving.
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Vice frequently brings me to tears. The prison one was very sad but well done. I also found the North Korea episode fascinating.
Same here. Sometimes it's very difficult to watch but I like that it's hard hitting and they show the reality.
The North Korea ones almost come off as comedy if you don't remember that there are millions of people starving to death in labor camps. It's so incredibly surreal and fake- just absurd. Like it's hard to imagine that world exists in real life.
I love the HBO vice series- I just can't understand how the content on Vice online that comes up on my facebook feed is such total trash compared to what they are doing with that series- its shocking they are even the same publication.
I know. Vice started out as very distinctly New York, kind of anarchistic, deliberate trash mag headed by idiot Gavin McInnes. For years they worked with Terry Richardson and posted columns like "Amphetamine Logic" by trainwreck Cat Marnell. That was how I was familiar with them so you can imagine my shock with the Vice documentary series came out.
If you can believe it, they actually have substantially improved the quality of their online "reporting" since the series started. They fired Gavin, and it's been going uphill (so you can imagine how bad it was before). We can only hope it continues in that direction.