If you've read my interview with Naomi Klein in the current issue of Dazed, then take a look at the short film below. It was made by the excellent Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron (Y tu mama tambien, Children of Men) and will give you a whiplash tour of some of the ideas in her new book 'The Shock Doctrine' that are currently causing a stir. And if you haven't read the interview yet (tsk), check the film out anyway - premiered to an 'enthusiastic' reception at this year's Venice Film Festival, it gives an introduction as to how crises, natural and manmade (i.e. tsunami, 9/11), are exploited by governments pushing through economic 'shock treatment' while people are still reeling from the trauma, in much the same way as those charming techniques recommended in the CIA handbook for breaking down prisoners into a "childlike state" - also known as "coercive interrogation", or as some people call it, "torture". 

Click play below to watch 'The Shock Doctrine' by Alfonso Cuaron