Lockdown well im trying to be disciplined. I stay tell me and i think its best attitude responsibly keep distance take face nests if you do have to mention indeed edits huge. Starts to sucker meaning that iris has to be starved out the most expensive for attitudes. Because straights strain the rejections more than actually texas. So youre better watch out to get. Now many people maybe a different generations will know your acting as a as a star of the man the laurian but this new film Family Romance can you just explain why i might ask you whether there i am impersonating an interviewer interviewing you and how that how that is to do with the film its a deep question yes it could be you know might be an impersonator. Digitally this possible to plough you into some digital interview with a likeness of you a real person so we read it we have to understand that representation of self even if you were yourself has changed with the digital age and in the way Family Romance. Has as a subject this question of performative things or fake fake news of performative appearance of people where youre meant somebody most of the people actually know exactly what they are doing they rent a friend when theyre in deep salvage the woods and they have a great afternoon with a friend they go out to the bar but sometimes. There might be a case a change missing a father. Gets a rented father and does know that the father they see and it so then its then its a deeper thing but of course make question is how much is your last performative. Doing a conversation on the air you probably talk differently than to your own family we play roles and we are in the military service of n. P. R. With our children so we adapt different voices different attitudes is it a kind of sequel to. Tokyo story. Not really. Mention a firm of been vendors there in that case it was a documentary and there was a participant but the smaller image making. Images that wasted away that have degenerated. Into dying out in a keep saying that since long time if you do not create adequate images for the state of our civilization being might die abject dinosaurus because presumably people will say it charts a horrifying destruction of family life let alone Family Romance given that people are imitating fathers hurting feelings and whilst always being alone. Of course it points also to exist then she solitude said we increase because populations are aging in all industrialized societies we have age and populations but its not only aging populations its also the internet itself that experiment toxically pretends to connect us yes we are connected we are not isolated solitude scrim. Did a showman the internet lo and behold reveries of the connected world indian web sequence actually didnt include it in the film places teenager who 15 years old who does 2 sounds and 200 texting a day constantly texting its totally amazing and i have never seen solitude s. T. P. Stet because all these 2200 trains and trace work she has never met in low and behold i think its evil musk that. Appears at one moment presumably you were joking when you said you wanted to go to mars on a one way trip no it actually im old enough to do it now i could do that now im just curious it points to a very very deep curiosity of course and orient it very well are you teach what stains us and im always depicted as adept at the lint jeopardizing my life in jeopardy if the life of everyone else is proof you said im very good in the assessment of risks and proof that im a prudent is set in i dont know send yourself feel not a single act of ethical turret but lets face it i do believe that his dream. To colonize mars is something we shouldnt do i think its a mistake we should rather take care of our planet shia and not make a planet out there hospital which doesnt really well chemists at all its 10000 times easier to colonize the bottom of the oceans for example than colonizing mars yes send out a few robots and maybe a few extra minutes for Scientific Research and get them back but do not go like the locusts. Graze our planet and then move on to the next in Family Romance when characters do become conscious that they may be hurting people conscious of their impersonator and conscious of the illusion they seem to think the only way out is a fake death. Yes that that is some sort of undercurrent in the film however the film shows and reality shows that the clients who rent persons to overcome desailly to replace a Family Member appearing awaiting less they enjoy what they are doing of course some people thought that corona virus could bring society back together again rebuild it stop it being atomized do you think do you think it has helped bring society back together again very hard to make an assessment of the crack society but i know for example. Family values become all of us and more important we look out who is really close to me who is really important so we go for the essential snow who are the real friends and in. Case in the increase in a context with family and i increase my contacts which may be very best friends all the rest becomes an important electoral votes and work on things that are essential is essential if were if one is lucky to have them of course i mean youre in los angeles you know coronaviruses hit the working class is right around the world disproportionately worse and in fact class seems to have. Become an issue in l. A. Because of its intersection with the race what have you made of whats been happening in l. A. Recently yeah of course Racial Disparities become very evident in there we have seen it before agreeing when you look at the prison population not only in california but the United States criminal justice is heavily based and i do believe that the soul movement. Can being noticed complaining their rights and being supported in having their rights is something completely necessary and over to you and i as a filmmaker and member of the academy. Just yesterday received a new nearly accepted member. And its remarkably 50 percent almost 50 percent now of new arrivals into their. Women a huge amount of African Americans a huge amount of them. Was from. From other cultures like latinos and other cultures and of course also a lot of foreignness foreign filmmaker thank you not trying to get an oscar that by celebrating them because of course still people of color disproportionately targeted there what have you made of especially since you made that film about death row there being Court Decisions now allowing the resumption of executions in the United States well its. Something that is in the acceptable for me. And. I think it is. It is something which points to something barbaric. But its the last thing i can tell the American People may be pissed opinions because i only can tell them i am against Capital Punishment. Because as a german i can not tell the American People cheneys people pakistanis how to deal with Capital Punishment and prison war it asked me he said very urban why i got an activist against Capital Punishment i said no but i fundamentally against Capital Punishment tell me why whats your reason and i said i do not have an argument and do not have a philosophical argument however i have a star i come from a country that executed takings of thousands of people because. Its the reason against the barbaric regime of hitler even telling a joke on hitler could cost you live your life in addition to the 10s of thousands of people executed because of a severely retarded or insane they were not worthy to live cert in addition to that genocide an industrialized genocide of 6000000 jewish people end of story. If we really understand its needed it started argument its a story went out to a golf stop you there more from the legendary filmmaker after this break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see that. Thats geysers Financial Advice they say money the balance. As it is it has a central bank support diadem is going to call them right now say stop the. Welcome back im still here with one of the greatest filmmakers of all time to talk its actually 75 years since the end of world war 2 if youve been watching i know you watch going underground but i thought he was covering the russian involvement in the 2nd world war surprise that certainly here in britain it was churchill who almost singlehandedly won world war 2 and and here in the United States is american g. I. s were the war but of course. We are completely and utterly aware that. Russia and lost 25000000 people when we need the war and i know that russian troops. Well the ones who liberated consideration camps actually this. Incredible sacrifices. On the side of russia and i do believe. It. Its ignore it because of crisis of political interests its very much a question not what are the facts maybe 600 ourselves 1000 american soldiers lost their lives in the 2nd world war 2526000000 russians those are facts that cannot be ignored and today its not that important what really happened its worth dressin who owns the narrative who owns the narrative and occupying the narrative has created some sort of dockside it. Hes in looks at it the information that we see every day i dont believe that the demonisation of russia is a very very big mistake they think statues a part of a narrative i know that theyre tearing their statues there they are attacks my understanding of history. Is different i think we should be aware that we are historically formed and we are formed by mistakes and we are formed by by what the past is history thats an extreme history it doesnt function by erasing the chronic use history doesnt function by talking money immense but users if you dont treat it very good you support the toppling of the statues of hitler and your country of europe. Yes but but its i think of course internet spouse because insignia and all is fine yes however in favor of very much the publication of hitler as man come for his. His writings to date we have a new edition of it in germany just banned for a long time now days a new edition but you only can buy it with very faint and notations historians who point out what. The consequences of this statement of hitler what was a consequence of this there took their paragraph in the book so it notated of course another element of the black lives matter protests has been the call to defund the police has been criticized here in britain what have you made of it especially since your great film left hand and bad left hadnt you painted a very grim picture of your Justice System that. Well its a movie style its a shame it doesnt have to to do much with police addressed to do with some sort of Prince George of movies and sharia parodic matic characters and all that but i must say my experience with police here in los angeles has been very pleasant been going to believe that only a very very small fraction of American Police is rotten and acts in a way that shouldnt it shouldnt be it needs to be reformed thats obvious x. No doubt defunding it completely into replacing them with boy scouts or beach along tees it would be stupid it doesnt function like that but of course the United States as we say on this program of turning in prisons per capita more than stalin or mao. Yes i see all of this and i notice all this not in the business of america bashing america has been very good to me and i see this as somebody who is a guest here in the country and i see of course all the deficits and i try to do my best and try to. Speak out whenever theres an occasion to point out things that are overlooked i know that in the past you have said how los angeles is an amazing place because of the cultural power it exerts right around the world is it losing any of that today or is it still there. I think it is still there because the things of great importance of great significance normally originate in in california and i mean the computer says internet started here in los angeles by the way the collective dreams of the world in cinema hollywood which is not my cup of tea but we have to remark important things also the silly things like aerobic studios and yoga is for 5 year olds and so all the silly thing spec they have repercussions around the world they normally originate from here it very few other things come from other cultures muslim fundamentalism is not code for me im born and it comes from yemen and egypt and pakistan and saudi arabia theyre obviously Weapons Companies in california that affect those other countries from where the is them is im comes from i suppose i mean do you notice any more a greater progressiveness in california regardless of trump happening in california right now a resurgent like max and i think that is yes despite of trump california storing ignoring much of whats coming from the Central Government and its inoperative and its bold for example electric cars tesla car as they come from coming for india the rockets to mute separation of probably this week on advertising on mask throughout this interview. I mean i also you mentioned the academy they gave the top oscar to a crazy marxist film parasite by. Ho is that tastes changing and becoming. Well or like more like your tastes as a. As to the hollywood blockbusters that i know you dont like. Well the academy here has stunned astonishing seeing sint among others the korean film parasite winning it. And its internationalizing of course. Academy in tollywood is in a way opening to films from other cultures that desperately trying to open to china desperately trying to open to to india to india but its because of the size of the markets too early though for any amount of patient of Indigenous Peoples youve always made Indigenous Peoples a feature of your films theyve actually been hit by coronavirus disproportionately yes. Thats catastrophic in u. C. D. In brazil for example. And. Yeah of crisis it has has been very much from my mind and it strains my wife who actually was pouring in the urals in the contrary and. For us in our region she has done an oratorio called last mistress composed of languages that are already extinct and languages that are critically endangered where theres only one or 2 or 3 speakers left and of course i have paid attention now if very 10 days were losing a hold spent with what happens if we lose less you know were told story no merkel calling no no not to no one to. Know which i cough skeet and its catastrophic how Indigenous People are wiped out and how their cultures are disappearing and now because of the corona virus they are one of the most endangered. Groups that we have out there and of course this in the context of deforestation which has been linked to coronavirus you often talk about your gym anika arijit is there a chance that we are living through a via my germany type period as as you then just talked about extinction of entire societies of languages of while while we all watch celebrities on television. Its not easy to connect to the right to the confusions of the right my era and the repercussions in the results from all these very stable times but. Yes i think previous shaking to a deeper core of a normally. Because it does affects every persons. Lifestyle in a way looking much more into late middle ages the big plague trines. And how it happened they are for exemplary revd. That danielle to fellows journal of a plague of the plague in london. In the 1600s its an incredible how he describes that a. Week trial destroying outside of parliament in london with no other racism in the photo it did actually do well in the bestsellers just as coronavirus was having but im going to ask because i mean we cover it here yemen the worlds worst humanitarian crisis the wars havent stopped despite the u. N. Secretary general asking for it during coronavirus why do you think the media is at fault in covering conflict you said in lessons in darkness about the fires in kuwait i had the feeling that this looked really awful and it was just a media way to deal with it and i felt i should do it much better what what is it that can be brought to the subject visually and experientially that the media just isnt well. At the time and made the film about the failures of kuwait it was in the news in 10 seconds snippets in little clips every every evening but i thought there was something much bigger big show had to be done because its not only a put it a political component in there the bad guys of Saddam Hussein started to fire since and i thought it was speaker it was a crime and not only a political crime it was a train against creation itself against the meaning of creation in a major firmware in a way firmed it was imagery where you cannot recognize our planet anymore every single image is as if it were shot on a catastrophic different planet somewhere out in the universe and yet we know its our planet try to to do a deeper approach that. Back to what youre saying about yemen the situation in yemen this is highly highly highly complicated and complex its not just simply a proxy war between east and west in saudi arabia and youre just name it its very very complex and im not a pundit but i see what is happening and i do see what is happening and and i think it is catastrophic it is catastrophic him it has to be merely approached all vices a stand on what interests what the interests of the others what other interests of saudi arabia what are the interests of the western community what are their interests on the ground on the ground its a catastrophe and it cannot stay like that now as we face all the implications of. Films youve made arguably your new film after Family Romance and see which is opening up here i understand is it about extra terrestrial threat to this world even though as we often cover here its threatened arguably right corporations by military contractors and so on tell me about what fascinates you about meat is well there fireballs coming at us and they had a lot of repercussions in culture like for example in history for example the blackstone at the southeastern corner of the car. Is with all probability a meteorit