In North Korea, Groupthink is the subtle pervasive condition by which a whole community adopts a common world view because dissent is suppressed and citizens are brainwashed. Groupthink in Australia is the subtle, pervasive condition by which a whole community adopts a common world view, because we want to be like everyone else. The North Koreans starve and are imprisoned. We get to watch and make the wrong films. Image: Aim High in Creation.
A few months back, I went to catch a Friday flick at the local. On offer at Dendy Newtown was the gazillionth incarnation of Transformers (Age of Extinction); two 3D rehashes (How to Train Your Dragon 2, Rio 2); one Oz genre flick (The Rover); an obscure Irish drama (Calvary); and two foreign docs of varying quality: Tim’s Vermeer and in case you missed him on TV, Brit comedian Steve Coogan, doing his shtick in The Trip to Italy.
