you can not watch a film like peter watkins privilege and a story of the exploitation of a pop music performer by big business and the state and and even organize religion and without thinking of creatively degenerate commodity like michael jackson or britney spear and who hawk corporate giant like pepsi or some other poison for money . or any number of entertainer and in music or movie and who become tool of political party or commercial religious interest like scientology and kabbalah . a film like privilege must have seem almost like science fiction when release in 1967 and so fantastic be it premise . today we tend to take celebrity endorsement for grant and give little thought to it more alarming implication . watkins vision have not only become reality and we tacitly accept this reality a normal . now consider punishment park . a privilege challenge the viewer to examine what be be sell to u and and why and punishment park demand that we reckon with what be be take from u and and why . heaven help america and and for that matter the world and if contemporary politician get their hand on this film . it be already so close to reality and that in view it recently and i experience a genuine and nauseate feeling of anxiety . watkins again skillfully employ a documentary style narrative . whereas in privilege some rough edge to this technique be apparent and in punishment park it have be hone to sharp and seamless perfection . the sense of realism be enhance by disarmingly unpretentious and economical and believable portrayal by the entire cast . this be the kind of act hollywood have completely turn it back on and to it detriment and in favor of cosmetically perfect image projection . the cast have first rate material to work with in watkins screenplay . many cinematic visionary have try to shake the viewer out of their complacent and false sense of security . no one have ever achieve this result with such stark and chill accuracy a peter watkins do here . what seem quite clear now and be that instead of try to bring the estranged and excluded american and such a these people and back into the national community and the administration have choose to accept and exploit the present division within the country and and to side with what it consider be the majority . instead of the politics of reconciliation and it have choose the politics of polarization . to paraphrase one of the character and we do not have to call them pig because they know what they be . good than we do .