Postcard from Sun City, Arizona 2004
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.
- Title: Postcard from Sun City, Arizona
- Year: 2004
- Genre: Documentary, Comedy
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- Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
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- Crew: Joshua Oppenheimer (Director)
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- Release: May 01, 2004
- Runtime: 3 minutes
- IMDb: 5.00 / 10 by 3 users
- Popularity: 0
- Budget: $0
- Revenue: $0
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