Bitter Lake (2015) 720p.10bit.WEBRip.x265-budgetbits
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GENERAL INFO
Genre
Documentary
Plot
An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.
Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated. Bitter Lake is a new, adventurous and epic film by Adam Curtis that explains why the big stories that politicians tell us have become so simplified that we can't really see the world any longer. The narrative goes all over the world, America, Britain, Russia and Saudi Arabia - but the country at the heart of it is Afghanistan. Because Afghanistan is the place that has confronted our politicians with the terrible truth - that they cannot understand what is going on any longer. The film reveals the forces that over the past thirty years rose up and undermined the confidence of politics to understand the world. And it shows the strange, dark role that Saudi Arabia has played in this. But Bitter Lake is also experimental. Curtis has taken the unedited rushes of everything that the BBC has ever shot in Afghanistan - and used them in new and radical ways. He has tried to build a different and more emotional way of depicting what really happened in Afghanistan. A counterpoint to the thin, narrow and increasingly destructive stories told by those in power today.
Encoding info
Encoded from WEB-DL (Adam.Curtis.Bitter.Lake.2015.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.h264-BTN.mkv), with HandBrake 1.2.2: HEVC x265 10 bit slower preset, CRF 29, nlmeans medium, 720p, aq-mode 1, sao/strong-intra-smoothing/rect disabled.
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Subtitles (SDH) from source
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MEDIAINFO
General
Filename = Bitter Lake (2015) 720p.10bit.WEBRip.x265-budgetbits.mkv
Duration = 2 h 16 min
Size = 841 MiB
Overall bit rate = 860 kb/s
Video #0
Format = HEVC x265 - 2.9:[Linux][GCC 8.2.0][64 bit] 10bit
Resolution = 1280x720
Aspect ratio = 16:9 (1.778)
Bit rate = 782 kb/s
Frame rate = 50.000 FPS
Audio #0
Title = Stereo
Format = Opus
Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 74.1 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English
Subtitles = ASS English SDH
