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Footage used [in order of first appearance]:
Television Show “The Regime” by HBO
PROLOGUE:
0:00 Chapter 1: An Attempt at Satire
PART I:
1:53 Chapter 2: A Den of Vipers
3:16 Chapter 3: Leopard Changing Spots
PART II:
9:01 Chapter 4: The Glass Box
13:41 Chapter 5: Power
19:57 Chapter 6: Yes, And?
28:05 Credits
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What I got from it was about the fundamental delusion of authoritarian regimes. Running a country is not a job that can (or should) be done by a single person. No one is that competent or that selfless, and people that think that they are good enough to do that necessarily have something wrong with their melon
Maybe the satire was that there's this great dictatorship, but behind the doors nobody knows what's going on, nobody really is strong enough to do anything. There is nothing going on, no great plan. Just a bunch of idiots.
That's the best I got.
Everyone keeps mentioning the Soviet Union and why it's a poor reflection of it.
I thought The Regime was supposed to be the Russian Federation and the main character was a stand in for Putin.
Satire needs a target. And the best satires attack that target repeatedly. I caught that this was not a comedy, not a satire. Just an amalgamation by committee of timid writers. This show had no balls.
18:55 I know a couple of dictatorships who do care about the words in the Constitution like the term limits. Too bad they just change them on a whim or pull some stunt to avoid following it
@svijj_
I am a sucker for fictional countries in movies, so I was quite excited for this miniseries. But alas, not much was explained in terms of the country's culture (apart from… a beet festival) and the context of the regime's past and future are pretty vague. It is a shame, it was promising little series. Kate Winslet nailed the role as always though!