The Deep Web documentary has the following subtitle: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and the Silk Road. It deals about the Silk Road website and the illegal arrest of his alleged owner. What is largely referred to as "the deep web" is not the dark hole of the internet, it's only that part not indexed by privacy-invading tools like Google or Bing. The documentary has been written and directed by Alex Winter. [source: unless stated, all pics are from The Collider website] Silk Road The "Silk … [Read more...]
John Pilger’s Chavez
Yesterday I was so busy, I couldn't find my head through the things to be done on time. But today is another day, and finally I'm under less stress. The only bad news are that Hugo Chávez died, the rest can wait. I remember two documentaries made on Chávez, by two different colored channels. One was somehow in the grand finance sponsored line, where Chávez was clearly presented as an antidemocratic Khmer Rouge dictator who obviously doesn't know left from right, and the other one was made by the … [Read more...]
Sad stories from the last century
I wanted to write about the Latvian documentary called The Soviet Story, inspired by a magazine article I read a few weeks ago. Of course I have searched for the movie and seen it. The critical view I read, was not at all reasonable, on the contrary, speculations were made that the film could be an exaggeration of the truth. I remember having met a lot of opinions in a certain matter discussed in the documentary, and I was intrigued by the lack of data. In time, I completely forgot. It was about … [Read more...]