The odds are good that even the least pop-culturally aware person you know understands what subliminal messages are -- stimuli presented to people that can only be picked up by the subconscious mind that then, hopefully, affect conscious thought and behavior. Jeff Warrick’s documentary
Programming the Nation? serves up a straightforward and interesting history of the practice, before devolving into a level of conspiracy theory that, regardless of its veracity, doesn’t have all that much to do with the rest of his movie.
Beginning with a since discredited experiment involving a reported increase in concession sales at a theater where phrases like “eat...
Released:
2011
Rated:
n/a
Length:
105 mins