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DLN
Posted October 1, 2010
A MICHAEL MOORE MUST SEE FOR ALL AMERICANS
Michael Moore is a national treasure. Those who have the guts to stand up and clearly and convincingly speak truth to power should be listened to and celebrated. For over 20 years Michael Moore has been doing just that, and in CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY he takes on his biggest, most powerful subject yet - the crippling inequities of our entire economic/political system.
In ROGER & ME, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE, FAHRENHEIT 9/11, SICKO, and now CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY, Moore has explored subjects that strike at the heart of who we are as a country, using the documentary form in an entertaining and often heartbreaking fashion. Though rarely able to refute the facts or substance of his work, his detractors have vilified him, accusing him of being a self-aggrandizing, partisan buffoon. But while Michael Moore is always the conscience-driven guide through his films, the films are not about him. They're about us.
In CAPTALISM he takes an unblinking look at how our economic system is completely and utterly rigged to fail and exploit the majority of the people while further enriching the already wealthy. Moore contends that the roots of our contemporary economic malaise reach back to our cowboy/corporate shill of a President, Ronald Reagan. The most recent result is the billions and billions of your tax dollars handed over to greedy failed banks and insurance companies by unelected government officials who ignored a Congressional vote against those very bailouts. Of course, these are the same figures (Hank Paulson, et al.) who once fed like pigs at the trough of those corrupt financial institutions and who are currently making economic policy (Geithner, Summers) in the Obama administration.
If Michael Moore was a dry, academic documentarian rather than the populist provocateur he is, no one would pay much attention to what he had to say. It's his ability as a filmmaker to show us the human element behind the nightmare that makes him so effective. It's also what has turned him into a nemesis of both the rich and powerful whose obscene practices he exposes and the average Americans exploited by fear into believing those commanding forces have their best interests at heart.
But Moore is never all about the negative. Showing us successful examples of populist empowerment (employee-run companies, neighbors defying banks to keep people in their homes), he is saying there is an alternative. And as a filmmaker, he keeps us totally involved on an emotional and intellectual level for the 2-plus hour running time of his movie.
In the end, Moore's thesis is simple. We live in a democratic political system in which the people are supposed to decide their fate. But we also live under a capitalist economic system in which wealth decides people's fates. In 21st century America, capitalism has crushed democracy. and it's time to take our country back!4 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
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caimrl
Posted October 1, 2010
Capitalism
Anybody who makes this much money off of a movie stating that capitalism is evil is an obvious joke.
2 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
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Judith9
Posted December 16, 2012
Honest truth, and can happen to anyone who is not part of runnin
Honest truth, and can happen to anyone who is not part of running the former White House. Thank-you Michael Moore for the truth! I keep getting emails, to purchase homes for less than $10,000.00 in the United States of America and I live in Canada. Try to figure that one out. Yes, some Canadians have jumped on board and see their real estate on the news for another shooting has taken place across from their new property that they purchased.
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Hildred
Posted November 19, 2012
Thank God for Michael Moore and for Current TV which has been ai
Thank God for Michael Moore and for Current TV which has been airing this important movie for the past several weeks. This film should be required viewing in every high school in the United States. This eye-opener takes the pieces of our broken democracy and creates a mosaic to show us how far we have fallen as a Nation. I grew up in the 70's in the midwest. I experienced first-hand and truly believed in the American Dream. Unfortunately, I and the rest of the 99% have been struggling our entire adult lives against the Evil Empire that is Wall Street and the Banks. The dream has been moved out of reach and we are just now beginning to wake up to this alarming realization. It is not a level playing field -- a fact that must change or the American Dream will be gone forever. Michael Moore, for his gutsy and determined effort to expose the truth, is my hero and is, indeed, a national treasure.
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tysonzia
Posted September 23, 2012
amazing to believe it could happen in america. god forbid that i
amazing to believe it could happen in america. god forbid that it happens here in Australia too
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