OK, so "stupid" isn't the right word, "cheap" is more like it. A film with a fascinating subject, that has been neglected in the media (which the film makes a big point of), is ruined by shoddy production values. The film has poor quality cameras and even poorer sound. During the interviews, you will strain to hear what the person's saying. The filmmakers could have fixed this with a little bit of good sound mixing, but decided not to. The film also suffers due to a lack of clips from the material that they are talking about. The filmmakers would have been wise to not worry about copyright issues and instead make a good film, especially with the budget they were working with. And as mentioned by others, the film does indeed have no real focus. And what little structure that is offered is...well...stupid. Instead the film uses an inordinate amount of old Trailer Vision material, and old stock footage. This film needed a major rewrite. This subject needs more attention from the public, and this film in the end is simply a wasted opportunity, especially with the great list of interviewees.
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Discussing the obvious...
planktonrules20 October 2011
The topic of this film is stupidity. What is stupidity? Why do people become or choose stupidity? Why are films so stupid or marketed for the stupid? How do we all behave or think stupidly? These topics and many more are explored in this odd little documentary.
The fact that there are a LOT of stupid people out there is certainly not news. So because of this, you wonder if this film is simply 'preaching to the choir', so to speak. Okay so we know that there are LOTS of stupid people...but what can you do about it? After all, stupid people don't care that they are stupid or have no idea that they are stupid--plus non-stupid people can't legally kill them, so I just don't see a point to the discussion or this film. In addition, some of the film's experts, to me, seem like very well-educated idiots. So what's the point? Well, after seeing the film, I am not really sure there is one.
Mildly diverting but certainly not particularly good or well made or insightful. And a film that's easy to skip or watch if you've got nothing better to do. I did, however, appreciate how the film pointed out that MOST Hollywood types are poorly educated...yet so many seem to think they are brilliant and have important things to say (amen!). I also liked the interview with the founder of the "Bert is Evil" website was interviewed--but it really had little to do with stupidity. Otherwise...meh.
The fact that there are a LOT of stupid people out there is certainly not news. So because of this, you wonder if this film is simply 'preaching to the choir', so to speak. Okay so we know that there are LOTS of stupid people...but what can you do about it? After all, stupid people don't care that they are stupid or have no idea that they are stupid--plus non-stupid people can't legally kill them, so I just don't see a point to the discussion or this film. In addition, some of the film's experts, to me, seem like very well-educated idiots. So what's the point? Well, after seeing the film, I am not really sure there is one.
Mildly diverting but certainly not particularly good or well made or insightful. And a film that's easy to skip or watch if you've got nothing better to do. I did, however, appreciate how the film pointed out that MOST Hollywood types are poorly educated...yet so many seem to think they are brilliant and have important things to say (amen!). I also liked the interview with the founder of the "Bert is Evil" website was interviewed--but it really had little to do with stupidity. Otherwise...meh.
yes it is
dbborroughs13 August 2008
Just over an hour long documentary on stupidity, how to define it and why we are it. Amusing to a point, but ultimately pointless film prattles on for its running time not saying much. To be certain its nice to know that idiot, imbecile and moron are all readings from the IQ test (Idiot is an IQ of 0-25 or a mental age of up to 3;Imbecile is an IQ of 25 to 50 with a mental age of 3 to 6 and a moron is an IQ of 50 to 75) but at the same time how can you really like a film that repeatedly makes the point that the rapid fire editing style of TV and its parade of idiocy is helping to dumb us down when the film uses the same rapid fire editing and parade of stupid human tricks to keep us interested. Though not as clever as it thinks it is, the opening warning that the film was made by a bunch of idiots proves painfully to be true. Watch on cable only.
Irony: this 'documentary' treats viewers like idiots
marblexyz6 February 2006
This movie is stuffed with quick edits full of useless archival footage.
Are any of the clips in the movie longer than 10 seconds?
The filmmakers clearly think we need constant visual stimulation to keep us engaged.
This movie is 95% style, 5% content. It does more to glamorize idiocy than repudiate it.
Please, we can pay attention without thousands of edits.
The actual content delivered by this movie are surrounded by footage that is related to the movie, but does not contribute actual content.
Are any of the clips in the movie longer than 10 seconds?
The filmmakers clearly think we need constant visual stimulation to keep us engaged.
This movie is 95% style, 5% content. It does more to glamorize idiocy than repudiate it.
Please, we can pay attention without thousands of edits.
The actual content delivered by this movie are surrounded by footage that is related to the movie, but does not contribute actual content.
Stangely fascinating
dschmeding28 September 2008
I just watched this "documentary" and think it was quite interesting. I do understand some of the critique in the comments here regarding the way this movie is edited and in how it doesn't fully fit the "documentary" description.
Anyway, I guess most have missed the point of why the movie is edited like this. The basic point of the movie is setting up the question what it stupidity, what is intelligence (and I think the whole explanation of the IQ-test and the source of terms like "idiot", "moron" and "imbecile" pretty much hits the nail that many who spew their intelligence in our faces are in fact pretty stupid but can't see it) and why is it that in an advanced age like we live in it is possible that clear stupidity spreads out to so many levels of our daily lives.
This movie is not just explaining terms and getting lost in its modern flashy editing like many criticize. In a way I found myself thinking strongly outside my personal box like up to now I only experienced with documentaries by Adam Curtis. So to me the movie worked, although i fully agree that in some way this movie is kind of incoherent. But the movie is served in a hypnotizing modern advertising way and pumps information and thesis in your head like normally brand slogans work but delivers quite the opposite. You do not get a clear message, you rather get many questions and I think most people don't even come close to think about many of these... although they are evident and necessary because a clear and immense stupidity dominates our daily lives. So this movie rubs your face in it any you start to connect the dots... and you need to think, you cannot simply consume this movie.
I just saw Adam Curtis "Century of the self" last week and its astonishing to see the parallels in how a society that de-evolved on the basis of morons like Freud and Bernays whose basic premise is a misanthropic "man is stupid"-idea that tops idiocy of with the fact that the men who realized that man is stupid think they can lead and control stupidity... although they are men themselves and therefor equally stupid and proving this right by doing something as stupid as dumbing down the masses and lying to them. Its these people that we can thank for a nihilistic society that has implemented loads of stupid ideas into a daily live that they consider "normal".
"Stupidity" moves across many subjects... media, internet, the idiotic way of how mankind shits in their own front-yard, still bashes their heads in like apes and praises faith and blind belief-systems that are far from being intelligent. And it closes the circle in pointing out how all this fits on modern politics.... guess what, your bush-Bashing is also implemented. But this point is true... watch this and Century of the self and you get the scary picture in how it all moves back to Bernays and the faulty history of psychology. Is not just the recent American political leaders... its a system that slowly creeps into our head and installs the acceptance of stupidity as normal. Watching the recent debates with McCain and Palin or seeing how the media feeds on unimportant nonsense like names or crappy veteran stories... it clearly got worse. And this system works the same in Europe as I can see in daily German media regurgitations. Its in politics, in economics (like the sub-prime-crisis and its fallout clearly show... this is not intelligent, its stupid. But if our elites consider the plain concentration on making money intelligent... only then a system of loans packaged and resold, shrouded to be seen not today but in 20 years when the shrouded bomb explodes can not be seen as plain stupidity working on egoistic short-sighted and ignorant motives like in the age of cavemen), entertainment, science, it came from advertising, infected every part of society and has become normal.
The questions may seem unimportant... but no one seems to ask anymore. Why do we watch TV, why do we watch commercials treating us like children and even buying whats advertised, why could we evolve into a species that is splitting atoms, reaching to the skies and close to cloning themselves but yet be unable to equally progress on a social level??
In that way the movie is more intelligent than most of those elites who consider the human race stupid but don't include themselves... the makers of this movie call themselves idiots. And this is the point... we all are and its OK. But if some think they are intelligent by feeding the idiot in most of us... this is plain spiritual emptiness, this is stupidity on the highest level and to me this his right where this movie is aiming at ... its aiming at all of us who have to remember "Everything you know could be wrong!".
Anyway, I guess most have missed the point of why the movie is edited like this. The basic point of the movie is setting up the question what it stupidity, what is intelligence (and I think the whole explanation of the IQ-test and the source of terms like "idiot", "moron" and "imbecile" pretty much hits the nail that many who spew their intelligence in our faces are in fact pretty stupid but can't see it) and why is it that in an advanced age like we live in it is possible that clear stupidity spreads out to so many levels of our daily lives.
This movie is not just explaining terms and getting lost in its modern flashy editing like many criticize. In a way I found myself thinking strongly outside my personal box like up to now I only experienced with documentaries by Adam Curtis. So to me the movie worked, although i fully agree that in some way this movie is kind of incoherent. But the movie is served in a hypnotizing modern advertising way and pumps information and thesis in your head like normally brand slogans work but delivers quite the opposite. You do not get a clear message, you rather get many questions and I think most people don't even come close to think about many of these... although they are evident and necessary because a clear and immense stupidity dominates our daily lives. So this movie rubs your face in it any you start to connect the dots... and you need to think, you cannot simply consume this movie.
I just saw Adam Curtis "Century of the self" last week and its astonishing to see the parallels in how a society that de-evolved on the basis of morons like Freud and Bernays whose basic premise is a misanthropic "man is stupid"-idea that tops idiocy of with the fact that the men who realized that man is stupid think they can lead and control stupidity... although they are men themselves and therefor equally stupid and proving this right by doing something as stupid as dumbing down the masses and lying to them. Its these people that we can thank for a nihilistic society that has implemented loads of stupid ideas into a daily live that they consider "normal".
"Stupidity" moves across many subjects... media, internet, the idiotic way of how mankind shits in their own front-yard, still bashes their heads in like apes and praises faith and blind belief-systems that are far from being intelligent. And it closes the circle in pointing out how all this fits on modern politics.... guess what, your bush-Bashing is also implemented. But this point is true... watch this and Century of the self and you get the scary picture in how it all moves back to Bernays and the faulty history of psychology. Is not just the recent American political leaders... its a system that slowly creeps into our head and installs the acceptance of stupidity as normal. Watching the recent debates with McCain and Palin or seeing how the media feeds on unimportant nonsense like names or crappy veteran stories... it clearly got worse. And this system works the same in Europe as I can see in daily German media regurgitations. Its in politics, in economics (like the sub-prime-crisis and its fallout clearly show... this is not intelligent, its stupid. But if our elites consider the plain concentration on making money intelligent... only then a system of loans packaged and resold, shrouded to be seen not today but in 20 years when the shrouded bomb explodes can not be seen as plain stupidity working on egoistic short-sighted and ignorant motives like in the age of cavemen), entertainment, science, it came from advertising, infected every part of society and has become normal.
The questions may seem unimportant... but no one seems to ask anymore. Why do we watch TV, why do we watch commercials treating us like children and even buying whats advertised, why could we evolve into a species that is splitting atoms, reaching to the skies and close to cloning themselves but yet be unable to equally progress on a social level??
In that way the movie is more intelligent than most of those elites who consider the human race stupid but don't include themselves... the makers of this movie call themselves idiots. And this is the point... we all are and its OK. But if some think they are intelligent by feeding the idiot in most of us... this is plain spiritual emptiness, this is stupidity on the highest level and to me this his right where this movie is aiming at ... its aiming at all of us who have to remember "Everything you know could be wrong!".
Waste of everything involved
chup2327 June 2008
It's a good thing the makers of this film declared themselves "idiots" at the very beginning of the movie. It saved me from making the comment myself. It would be easy to brand this film "stupid", but I think it goes way beyond that label. It is lazy, inept and insulting. I actually hated this film enough to write this review. I didn't feel this insulted after watching "Transformers," that's how bad I'm annoyed at this movie. Can I just say how tired I am of "documentaries" using canned footage from old propaganda films from the '40s and '50s. You know the footage I'm talking about: scenes in black and white where they show you how things worked in the good old days, when things were simple, and the American dream was a smiling paradise. Women frolicked in their dresses and men wore suits and fedoras. Am I the only one tired of filmmakers splicing this stuff into their movies to show us a foil to their insipid points? To show us that our grandparent's generation was ruled in naivety and now these new filmmakers can show us the truth on how the really real world works? This stuff was okay when Mike Moore did it in "Roger & Me", but just because its public domain (meaning "free footage") shouldn't mean you're hip or ironic when you use it. The filmmakers spend a lot of time explaining the definition of several words -- like "moron" and "idiot" (they seem to take great delight in asking people on the street about these words' origins) -- but seem to have failed to figure out what the word "documentary" is. In most definitions of the word, it contains the word "factual" or "non-fiction." You're supposed to making your thesis by presenting us your audience with non-biased facts or imagery to support your claim. Thus, editing in footage of your colleagues staring moronically at a camera with bad haircuts and fake snaggleteeth to support the claim may be against the tradition. Doing it over and over and over and over again is just tiring. Doing it twelve more times after that is just trying to fill time to make it past the feature film mark. And here's the bad part. In a section where the filmmakers decide to go off on how dumbed down our media has become, instead of getting snippets of actual TV shows to support their claim, they include self-made footage parodying these shows in the lowest common denominator, using the aforementioned fake snaggleteeth. Thanks for letting us make up our own minds, guys. Thanks for speaking down to us. And while I'm talking about the media bashing part of the film, the filmmakers inform us that the world of news has just become an onslaught of 30 second sound bites with no real conversation about the subject matter that's being discussed. Can't argue with that, but guess what? This entire movie is an onslaught of 10 - 30 second sound bites from all of their experts with no real dialogue or discussion on what stupidity is or what its real effects are. I could go on for another hour counting the ways this movie sucks (footage of people tripping isn't stupidity, those are called accidents, guys; showing some guy running naked on an ice-rink is not that interesting to repeat seven times sporadically throughout 90 minutes; placing shitty lightning effects over a guy talking about special effects movies isn't funny or ironic -- its a waste of human spirit) but I think I'm about done here. Fellow filmgoers, just avoid this thing. It's not clever or funny. It's a waste of Canadian tax incentives. And Donald Sutherland (who narrated this mess). And electricity. To those who green-lit "Stupidity," try to find a subject that actually has a subject next time. Or filmmakers that actually have a clue to what they are doing.
Style and flash but little substance
rjdegraff5 September 2006
This film does a credible job of exploring the history of stupidity, the development of the IQ test, etc., but then it falls flat. The documentary focuses too much on people who "choose" stupidity and too little on people who have a brain but can't be bothered to use it. I assume that the quick cuts are geared toward people with a short attention span. In that case this movie seems to target the very people who would be the least interested in watching it.
A much better resource for anyone interested in this trend is the excellent book "Dumbth" by Steve (The Tonight Show) Allen. While it is useful to explore why people choose to behave like idiots I would much rather know why people don't go to the effort to think.
A much better resource for anyone interested in this trend is the excellent book "Dumbth" by Steve (The Tonight Show) Allen. While it is useful to explore why people choose to behave like idiots I would much rather know why people don't go to the effort to think.
Funny but frightening
bigfatgoose200010 November 2004
When I saw the film the audience was laughing quite a bit.
In other parts there was a scary silence. As the film point out, stupidity is really funny but it's also running our world. Film travels from some of the more intellectual angles to some of the more trivial. We really enjoyed it all though we came and argued about the issue.
I never knew where idiot and moron came from. Not sure that I'm better off knowing. All in all and enjoyable take on a never-before broached topic.
Now, with Bush re-elected, Stupidity is more relevant than ever.
Too relevant.
In other parts there was a scary silence. As the film point out, stupidity is really funny but it's also running our world. Film travels from some of the more intellectual angles to some of the more trivial. We really enjoyed it all though we came and argued about the issue.
I never knew where idiot and moron came from. Not sure that I'm better off knowing. All in all and enjoyable take on a never-before broached topic.
Now, with Bush re-elected, Stupidity is more relevant than ever.
Too relevant.
Not as it should be...but a MUST-see nonetheless !
LorienTheFirstOne5 October 2005
The title pretty much says it all. People really should watch this. I don't care if the budget was small, and the video and sound quality is not Hollywood level. The content is what matters. And the content is good here. I voted 8/10 because it really needed to insist on some subjects, and not mention them and move on so quickly. Also i would like a bit more info,interviews, etc. The music was great by the way. So was the narration. I liked the comments from various famous people, like Noam Chomsky, Joel Shumacher, Michael Moore, John Cleese. also i liked the choice of people inteviewed. TV producers, journalists, authors and others.
Seems not a lot of people have seen this but check it out!
mapeoleaf21 July 2005
I really enjoyed this film. I never heard about it before but the cover of it caught my attention with a picture of what may just be, Marilyn Manson with a dunce cap on. It looks like the American cover is different than the one that I saw. Anyhow, it would be "stupid" to talk about this point right now. The fact of the matter is this is a very good film. Yes, it can be scary. It is sad the way we are being submerged in a sea of horrid media and we eat it up. It is true that people who are supposedly educated professors are often big "morons", or even the people that run countries. This film captivated my interest and I felt like I needed to change my own viewing habits. For instance: anyone can become an internet celebrity even without their knowledge. Although this is a scary prospect that does occur; the film did not focus on this issue. The film is often very tongue in cheek but also cuts with a sharp edge. I laughed, I cried and I decided to not sit like a dullard in front of the "boob tube" to watch the crap that they shovel us. Yes, we are all morons and we need to free our mind of any intelligence because to pretend that we are smart would just be a lie. Check this film out it will change the way you look at things.
Stupidity hits nail on head with beliefs
onebilliongods9 March 2005
There's different versions of this film. The more recent ones are much better. It's like they realized they were onto something. Anyway, I found the theory of belief systems leading to stupidity to the most convincing. It's true. Religion, politics, preaching, they all make us stupid. The more you believe in something, the more you mind is closed to new truths, this you become an ignoramus. Also, makes point that Bush is stupid, but that the people who call him stupid are stupid too. Which is essentially, the whole thing in a nutshell. Anyway, I'm glad that somebody looked into it. Otherwise, I have every reason to believe we'll keep getting stupider and stupider.
Hilarious at times, dull at others, but always funny
hanik_199923 March 2004
Went to see this movie in San Fran after getting hilarious fliers featuring a really, well, STUPID-looking George W. smiling awkwardly, as only Dubya can. But the movie is not so much about Bush as about, well, stupidity, idiocy, moronism (?) and how they've infected society. We always hear "Sex sells", but this entertaining documentary shows how "Stupid sells" and features some hysterical trailers by the Canadian company that produced it, Trailervision. Kung-Fu Jesus and Pourquoi Pas? (the sequel to...Pourquoi) are shown, and believe me, you will laugh. But the short film (about 75 minutes) also tries to make you think--who'da thunk it in a film basically glamorizing the absence of thought?--about how popular stupidity has become in our culture, arts, and politics. Definitely worth a view, if you can find it. I saw it on 16th & Valencia in San Fran; hopefully it will make its way to New York soon. And check out the trailer of Kung-Fu Jesus on the Trailervision website. No, I don't get a cut by shilling it; my bro and I just found it so friggin' hilarious that you'd be, um, stupid not to see it. Enjoy.
The Mind of the Beholder
blubb0619 September 2008
The bad ratings for this movie prove once again that most voters here, if not everyone except me (readers excluded) is an idiot ;-)
It is not about defining what stupidity IS - I'm sure none of us needs any lessons on that - but exploring why stupidity is so desirable! Don't believe the text ads on this movie's own website; advertising people are tuned in to stupidity 27 hours a day and are making lots of money promoting stupidity - believe me, I should know. (They're only surpassed by the feeble-minded folks advertising NOVELS.) Stupidity sells, so it can't be that stupid after all.
I ass-u-me most of us would agree with the movie's take on certain political personae, but this should not stop us from picking our own noses. Is stupidity the only road to peace of mind in the Atomic Infotainment Age? Were our TV-less ancestors better off? Maybe not. If anything makes our times & age different, it's that TVs have blown up the individual's importance out of all proportion - how else is it possible that I feel I should be able to solve every problem on the planet with my informed opinion? Or the mad idea that War can ever be permanently abolished, now that so much is at stake, if all of us only really, really wish it.
Like Monty Python's "Life of Brian", the movie ends with a sing-along song and a note of black humor: "History is made by stupid people, clever people wouldn't even try..." We learn that someone in Vineland/New Jersey carries the distinction of having invented the word "moron", and the general history of IQ testing. Other than that, the educational benefit in negligible, but if you don't expect a solution to life's questions like you would from a BBC documentary, it's an enjoyable hour that leaves the brain ticking for a few more. On the other hand, you could benefit from a series of mantras near the end on how to become perfectly stupid:
"No thoughts are good thoughts..."
"Remember not to remember..."
"Shift the blame..."
(for the full course google up the guy's name afterwards... yes, I'm not kidding)
It is not about defining what stupidity IS - I'm sure none of us needs any lessons on that - but exploring why stupidity is so desirable! Don't believe the text ads on this movie's own website; advertising people are tuned in to stupidity 27 hours a day and are making lots of money promoting stupidity - believe me, I should know. (They're only surpassed by the feeble-minded folks advertising NOVELS.) Stupidity sells, so it can't be that stupid after all.
I ass-u-me most of us would agree with the movie's take on certain political personae, but this should not stop us from picking our own noses. Is stupidity the only road to peace of mind in the Atomic Infotainment Age? Were our TV-less ancestors better off? Maybe not. If anything makes our times & age different, it's that TVs have blown up the individual's importance out of all proportion - how else is it possible that I feel I should be able to solve every problem on the planet with my informed opinion? Or the mad idea that War can ever be permanently abolished, now that so much is at stake, if all of us only really, really wish it.
Like Monty Python's "Life of Brian", the movie ends with a sing-along song and a note of black humor: "History is made by stupid people, clever people wouldn't even try..." We learn that someone in Vineland/New Jersey carries the distinction of having invented the word "moron", and the general history of IQ testing. Other than that, the educational benefit in negligible, but if you don't expect a solution to life's questions like you would from a BBC documentary, it's an enjoyable hour that leaves the brain ticking for a few more. On the other hand, you could benefit from a series of mantras near the end on how to become perfectly stupid:
"No thoughts are good thoughts..."
"Remember not to remember..."
"Shift the blame..."
(for the full course google up the guy's name afterwards... yes, I'm not kidding)
A good introduction to stupidity
rgcustomer3 June 2011
Warning: Spoilers
My comments refer to the "Special Edition Director's Cut" which runs about 70 minutes, and appears to be absent from the "alternate versions" page.
This is a fun introductory look at the topic of stupidity. As the film itself notes, stupidity isn't a subject that has been looked at seriously by very many researchers. Books on the subject can't even fill a shelf, and this is the first and only film with this title (as far as IMDb knows).
The film opens with a look at the definitions of stupidity, as well as former psychological terms that have become insults: idiot, imbecile, and moron.
It the moves into the subject of dumbed-down media (apparently the original idea of this film, and something from which it suffers although it doesn't admit it).
Other topics include fallacies of smart people (or at least successful people) who over-estimate their abilities, "super-stupidity" -- the promotion of stupid behaviour and ignorance, and widespread human stupidity (climate change, religion, war).
Former president Bush is shown as a prime example of stupidity, and using the appearance of stupidity to accomplish goals.
It ends with the idea that being stupid in today's world is actually quite hard work for most people, and that stupidity may be a desirable state, at least at the individual level.
I'm not sure what all the differences are, but this version apparently includes a Fox News interview, and a David Suzuki interview, not in the original version.
If there had been more films on the subject of stupidity, I'd have rated this lower. But this is all there is. It could have taken a more serious tone. It should have included things like the "tragedy of the commons", the Monty Hall problem, and invention versus quality concepts.
This is a fun introductory look at the topic of stupidity. As the film itself notes, stupidity isn't a subject that has been looked at seriously by very many researchers. Books on the subject can't even fill a shelf, and this is the first and only film with this title (as far as IMDb knows).
The film opens with a look at the definitions of stupidity, as well as former psychological terms that have become insults: idiot, imbecile, and moron.
It the moves into the subject of dumbed-down media (apparently the original idea of this film, and something from which it suffers although it doesn't admit it).
Other topics include fallacies of smart people (or at least successful people) who over-estimate their abilities, "super-stupidity" -- the promotion of stupid behaviour and ignorance, and widespread human stupidity (climate change, religion, war).
Former president Bush is shown as a prime example of stupidity, and using the appearance of stupidity to accomplish goals.
It ends with the idea that being stupid in today's world is actually quite hard work for most people, and that stupidity may be a desirable state, at least at the individual level.
I'm not sure what all the differences are, but this version apparently includes a Fox News interview, and a David Suzuki interview, not in the original version.
If there had been more films on the subject of stupidity, I'd have rated this lower. But this is all there is. It could have taken a more serious tone. It should have included things like the "tragedy of the commons", the Monty Hall problem, and invention versus quality concepts.
Amazing Movie that left you shocked - A payback to stupidity
rotchrut14 July 2013
First of all: Watch the original BBC-Documentary on Youtube. It's free and legal. This is also the best version, I'd recommend it.
This Documentary is well based on statements and with an amazing background research. Famous persons like Bill Maher talk about his view of stupidity as well as average persons on the street, that have been interviewed about their understatement of morons, idiots and stupid behavior.
After you saw this movie you're shocked, amazed and amused as well. You see yourself, your own stupidity, the stupidity of others and the whole society. It also contains some new views on the definition. There is nearly no research on stupidity (about 10 books) but this movies does a good job. I'm glad someone took so much effort to create it.
I have to point out: This is a serious documentary, don't expect too much fun and laughing. When you realize how stupid this world is, you really don't feel like laughing anymore. Even if some of the situations are funny as hell.
This Documentary is well based on statements and with an amazing background research. Famous persons like Bill Maher talk about his view of stupidity as well as average persons on the street, that have been interviewed about their understatement of morons, idiots and stupid behavior.
After you saw this movie you're shocked, amazed and amused as well. You see yourself, your own stupidity, the stupidity of others and the whole society. It also contains some new views on the definition. There is nearly no research on stupidity (about 10 books) but this movies does a good job. I'm glad someone took so much effort to create it.
I have to point out: This is a serious documentary, don't expect too much fun and laughing. When you realize how stupid this world is, you really don't feel like laughing anymore. Even if some of the situations are funny as hell.
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