I Saw Love Disfigure Me: A Review of Adam Curtis’s "Can’t Get You Out of My Head"

To see how everything fits together, first you have to break it apart.

Eventually, the world stops making sense for everyone. For Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, it happened in 1992, when a piece of shrapnel broke through his skull, lodged itself in his brain, and instantly scattered twenty years of memories. When he woke up in hospital, he couldn’t even remember his own name: all he had were flashes, instants of someone e…