Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses) (1987)
Plain Talk is a complex essay-film, a follow-up a decade and some years later to Speaking Directly, and so another State of the Nation discourse, made for Britain's Channel Four in the year 1986-87. The work involved extensive travel around the United States, and poses an examination of just what America is/was, or what do we mean when we speak of it. Done in a series of radically different sections which collide with each other in a manner intended to provoke thinking, Plain Talk, which was made by an American and intended for American viewers, was indeed broadcast in Britain, but somewhat predictably, not in the USA.
- Date of release
- 1987-09-06
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Jon Jost
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