Hard to believe this movie adaptation came out in 2001, because (with a few rare exceptions) it looks and feels amazing, and altho I don't love all the choices they made (where is Bombadil!?), the four hours honestly flew by.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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