Peter Watkins’s acidic piss take on culture under corporate control is maybe more relevant than ever.
Privilege had the jump on Easy Rider in telling a generation that they were going to blow it.
The film is a commercially alienating satire of state, faith, and pop whose transgressions can be best understood in the context of its era.
Like Punishment Park, the film is an uncompromised take on the front lines of a media war.
Peter Watkins was reacting against Vietnam, but his assessment can easily be translated into today’s hotbed political climate.