Postcard from Sun City, Arizona

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  • NR
  • 2004
  • 3 min
  • 5.7  (25)

Joshua Oppenheimer sets images of life in a retirement community in Arizona (as seen through television commercials) to a talk radio interview with a female convict extolling the benefits of her time on Sherriff Joe Arpaio's chain gang. It is two different kinds of sale jobs working at cross-purposes. Oppenheimer takes the luster off the idealistic advertising images through video distortion and electronic interference and cuts-up both the video and audio tracks until the weird poetry of the chain gang prisoner's lessons in life and death gives the commercial presentation a creepy disconnection from any kind of living ideal. It follows A BRIEF HISTORY OF PARADISE AS TOLD BY THE COCKROACHES and MARKET UPDATE as another sharp jab at consumerism as an illusory promise. - Sean Axmaker

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Description
  • Release Date
    2004
  • MPAA Rating
    NR
  • Runtime
    3 min
  • Language
    English
  • IMDB Rating
    5.7  (25)
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