Capitalism: A Love Story

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In presenting a “fireball of a movie that might change your life” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), Moore “skewers both major political parties” (Claudia Puig, USA Today) for selling out the millions of people devastated by loss of homes and jobs to the interests of fat cat capitalists. Moore has “dug up some astonishing dirt” (Brian D. Johnson, Macleans), stories told in the faces of the foreclosed and evicted, in the food stamps received by hungry airline pilots, and in the courage of fired factory workers who refuse to go quietly. But more than a cry of despair, Moore’s film raises the possibility of hope. Capitalism: A Love Story is “The most American of films since the populist cinema of Frank Capra (It’s a Wonderful Life)” (Dan Siegel, Huffington Post ), “a movie that manages shrewdly, even brilliantly, to capitalize on the populist anger that has been sweeping the nation” (Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal ). Capitalism: A Love Story is loaded with over 90 minutes of hilarious extended and deleted scenes, as well as exciting and informative featurettes profiling Americans and American businesses!

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Michael Moore's didactic documentary style is actually a source of inspiration in Capitalism: A Love Story. This film, which explores the history of incongruence between American capitalism and democracy, is evidently a culmination of Moore's lifetime of research into this topic: he begins the movie by admitting his longstanding interest, rooted in childhood experiences in Flint, Michigan. As a result, the film displays an expertise that is less irritating than in Moore's earlier works, in which various loopholes can be found in one-sided presentations (see Bowling for Columbine). Here Moore employs his trademark tactics to make a satirical documentary that functions as a film-based, grassroots political strategy meant to provoke revolt. Consisting of patched-together clips from various eras and media outlets, the film weaves a narrative that underscores Moore's argument that while America is a success because of its democracy, it has been denigrated by capitalism, which he calls "a system of taking and giving, mostly taking." Capitalism: A Love Story is a patriotic call to arms that seeks to ignite rage in the viewer who is tired of political stupidity resulting in poverty and hardship among a dwindling middle class. It begins by tracing the growing gap between the rich and poor, from the Depression through the 1950s "free enterprise" boom. Using clips of FDR and Jimmy Carter warning against greed and inequality, Moore shows how gradually Americans came to accept Reaganomics, corporate corruption, then Bush-era swindling over time. This history serves as context for his explanation of the housing crisis, the collapse of banks, and Bush's covert, last-ditch efforts to pass sketchy bills on the cusp of Obama's election. Moore asks several lawyers, senators, and bankers, "What the **** happened?" and each offers intelligent assessments of situations that many American viewers still struggle to comprehend. Unfortunately, there are corny Moore moments throughout the film, such as when he takes an armored truck to various banking headquarters and harasses security guards to let him in to reclaim money stolen from the American public. Clips of Bush dancing juxtaposed with shots of people crying because they've lost their homes are melodramatic and only weaken Moore's arguments. Like Robin Hood, Moore seeks justice, but his greatest strength is as a translator between those speaking a complex political language and his viewers. Capitalism: A Love Story, while it does have a condescending tone throughout, does much to relay a complicated history that we all need to know for the sake of our own empowerment. --Trinie Dalton

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Capitalism: A Love Story Customer Review


There are so mny reviews of this movie it makes no sense to add to them. But I was so moved by this the urge to add my thoughts was undeniable.

When I first became interested in America and its history I thought very little of the country. Then my attitude changed and I became a flag waver. No I would like to wave the flag, but my view is clouded by what I've seen wrong with the country and the ignorance, stupidity and hyporacy of the elected officials and the voters who put them where they can do the most harm. My fear is we will get the result we vote for. Why should I care? My time on this earth is growing very short, but there are people who are important to me and I don't want them to suffer because of the idiots who seem to have all the energy and wealth needed to rule our government.

I believe in the inevitability of revolution. No group of people will support a government which neglects their human needs forever. What I fear is who will lead and begin this revolution. It looks very much like it will be the extreme right wing who demand the return to the good days of the past when America was great and the dhining city on the hill offering a beacon to the rest of the world. Sounds great if you know nothing of the "good old days of moral values and the benefits of capitalism." Does communism work? No. For the same reason that Christianity does not work. It is against human nature. No one is willing to support the common good if it will cost him. This is the same reason capitalism doesn't work. It is a religion that recognizes and uses the basic flaws in human nature that keep us from being as human as we shouid be. A newspaper columnist once said, "The trouble with the beautiful people is they are neither." This is the problem with the cpoitalist: he is neither beautiful nor human.

I normally don't look at tthis type of show because it depresses me to realize there are many problems that I can do nothing about. There are many error of judgement that I cannot ecducate about. When the radical right "leaders" advocate secession I say "let them go." Then I remember another movie where a two bit dictator declares war on the U. S. so he can get foreign aid from us. Son't let Texas have any foreign aid. They don't deserve it and wouldn't know how to use it.

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