
Postcard from Sun City, Arizona
Joshua Oppenheimer sets images of life in a retirement community in Arizona (as seen through television commercials) to a talk radio interview with a female convict extolling the benefits of her time on Sherriff Joe Arpaio's chain gang. It is two different kinds of sale jobs working at cross-purposes. Oppenheimer takes the luster off the idealistic advertising images through video distortion and electronic interference and cuts-up both the video and audio tracks until the weird poetry of the chain gang prisoner's lessons in life and death gives the commercial presentation a creepy disconnection from any kind of living ideal. It follows A BRIEF HISTORY OF PARADISE AS TOLD BY THE COCKROACHES and MARKET UPDATE as another sharp jab at consumerism as an illusory promise.
TMDB
5.0/10
3 votes
- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
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- Language
- EN
Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical1 May 2004
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- Postcard from Sun City, Arizona was released on 1 May 2004.
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- Postcard from Sun City, Arizona (2004) was directed by Joshua Oppenheimer.
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- Postcard from Sun City, Arizona runs for 3m.












