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Screen Daily called it "a serious, strange and unsettling account of brainwashing"; Variety deemed it a "powder-keg documentary"; while a BBC reviewer said it had "the scary intensity of a thriller".
She deemed it "fascinating".
America deemed it "invalid".
She deemed it "dire".
Military officials have deemed it a suicide.
The staid BBC deemed it "delicious".
Nash deems it "patently false".
Though even here some audiences recoil – in 1948 Shirley Jackson's The Lottery was deemed so unsettling upon its publication in the New Yorker that several readers cancelled their subscription.
When Tony Last is lost in the jungle at the end of A Handful of Dust, faced with a lifetime of reading Dickens to the mad Mr Todd, should we laugh or cry at such an ending (an ending that Waugh's US publisher deemed too unsettling for an American audience)?
More than that, in the U.S. universities have a long tradition of serving as locations in which voices deemed too unsettling for mass exposure can nonetheless be heard: communist voices, socialist voices, atheist voices, and of course conservative or fascist voices.
"I find it unsettling".
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