Movie summary of Capitalism by Michael the Moviegoer.
CAPITALISM = ***1/2
“More Moore”
When Gordon Gekko proclaimed that “greed is good” in Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street”, I remember feeling back then, in 1987, that this might be the beginning of the end. It was the first crack in the dam that would totally come apart two decades later. With all the news and movie footage Michael Moore license’s into his films, I’m surprised there’s no reference to the Stone movie in Moore’s latest “Capitalism, A Love Story”.
But Moore doesn’t blame only Wall Street greed on the recent collapse of our economy. He blames the concept of capitalism itself. An indictment that is sure to raise eyebrows and make his new documentary his most controversial to date.
Moore speculates that capitalism is unconstitutional. That this couldn’t be what the founding fathers had in mind. Or the founding Father for that matter, as he has fun speculating about what Jesus might think about our way of life.
When the have-nots outnumber the haves by nearly 99 to 1, a revolution is near. Moore’s film documents the early stages of that revolt by showing us incredible footage of worker strikes that pay off, and foreclosure victims that win a fight against eviction simply by staying put.
Like all of Moore’s documentaries, he likes to entertain as well as educate. And even though he sometimes comes off as preachy or manipulative, he is always persuasive in his arguments. He has us cringing, crying and laughing all at the same time.
When the laughs come, they are big ones. Like when Moore is shown wrapping yellow crime scene tape around the bank buildings in lower Manhattan. On a recent TV talk show, Moore was asked if the police tried to stop him from doing that. He said that an officer had approached him only to say that his police pension fund had lost half its value, so he told him to go right ahead with what he was doing.
DVD Double Feature: Actually, there are three previous Moore documentaries that all have a common thread. How politics and the economy have effected life in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. “Roger And Me” shows how General Motors destroyed the town by closing one of its factories. In “Fahrenheit 9/11” we see how the unemployed of Flint, Michigan are recruited to join the U.S. Army to go fight in Iraq. “Sicko” looks at the state of health care in our country (including Flint) as compared with that of other countries. All are very important films for Americans to see.
Michael The Moviegoer
CAPITALISM = ***1/2
“More Moore”
When Gordon Gekko proclaimed that “greed is good” in Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street”, I remember feeling back then, in 1987, that this might be the beginning of the end. It was the first crack in the dam that would totally come apart two decades later. With all the news and movie footage Michael Moore license’s into his films, I’m surprised there’s no reference to the Stone movie in Moore’s latest “Capitalism, A Love Story”.
But Moore doesn’t blame only Wall Street greed on the recent collapse of our economy. He blames the concept of capitalism itself. An indictment that is sure to raise eyebrows and make his new documentary his most controversial to date.
Moore speculates that capitalism is unconstitutional. That this couldn’t be what the founding fathers had in mind. Or the founding Father for that matter, as he has fun speculating about what Jesus might think about our way of life.
When the have-nots outnumber the haves by nearly 99 to 1, a revolution is near. Moore’s film documents the early stages of that revolt by showing us incredible footage of worker strikes that pay off, and foreclosure victims that win a fight against eviction simply by staying put.
Like all of Moore’s documentaries, he likes to entertain as well as educate. And even though he sometimes comes off as preachy or manipulative, he is always persuasive in his arguments. He has us cringing, crying and laughing all at the same time.
When the laughs come, they are big ones. Like when Moore is shown wrapping yellow crime scene tape around the bank buildings in lower Manhattan. On a recent TV talk show, Moore was asked if the police tried to stop him from doing that. He said that an officer had approached him only to say that his police pension fund had lost half its value, so he told him to go right ahead with what he was doing.
DVD Double Feature: Actually, there are three previous Moore documentaries that all have a common thread. How politics and the economy have effected life in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. “Roger And Me” shows how General Motors destroyed the town by closing one of its factories. In “Fahrenheit 9/11” we see how the unemployed of Flint, Michigan are recruited to join the U.S. Army to go fight in Iraq. “Sicko” looks at the state of health care in our country (including Flint) as compared with that of other countries. All are very important films for Americans to see.
Michael The Moviegoer
