Capitalism: A Love Story
October. 02,2009 RMichael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
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To me, this movie is perfection.
Don't listen to the negative reviews
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
It is just too bad to see the whole title is driven by the idea that fear was the ideal engine for the wealthy to steal .Well now the director is using the same to insight a revolution .Please add some analysis to the claims ...
Let me state clearly, I do not always agree with Michael Moore's political point-of-view. However, Capitalism: A Love Story is a fair, compelling, but sad testament on the realities of Capitalism. Moore did an excellent job (and with a touch of humor) exposing and depicting the perils of an economic system of profit, wealth, and corruptible power built by ideological propaganda that Capitalism serves the Greater Good, and the world. We often forget, especially when we are fortunate and comfortable financially, the many uncounted victims that fall prey to this economic system of uncontrolled and ruthless greed. And this movie should worry us all into asking the question, "Is capitalism—in its present form—good, and if not, how can we change it for the better?"
It's 2017, Obama is no longer president, Donald Trump has been in office for over 2 months now. We've seen nothing change since the time of this documentary. The biggest change (and most unpredictable) has got to be... Donald got elected. See the irony? What does that say about the mentality/desire of this nation?Obama's presidency did not do justice to his constituents; and he himself became just another helpless politician in the pockets of the rich of the corrupted Wall Street and corporations.The top 1% is still enjoying their taxes cut and the expansion of their wealth. The middle-class is shrinking both in size and spending power. The low-income class is expanding and continuing to suffer in their dark landscape of misery.Justice is still leaning onto the side of the rich and the privilege ones. The banking industry is still under-regulated and Wall Street is still operating the same way as before the bailout. No one (except maybe a few low-echelon people) in the financial sector get indicted let alone go to prison.The band plays on, the champagne corks pop, and the capitalism party dances all the way to the bank... until the next bailout...
Before I begin this review I would like to say that "Roger and me" (also directed by Michael Moore) is one of my favorite movies, and T.V nation I think is a great example of early very liberal television (nowadays we have the daily show and colbert report). That being said, I also have to disclose I have two business degrees including the coveted MBA. So is this a good movie, well unfortunately no. This is not the capitalist pig that dwells within me speaking, but a lover of good movie making speaking out. The second half of this movie was timely and in general pretty good, the first half was uneven and at times a little stupid. The worst scene in the entire movie came just before the movie started to pick up steam. It involved a family, who both the husband and wife worked at walmart. Walmart had taken out a small life insurance policy, on the guys wife (I am assuming to offset rehiring costs in case she died) but Michael Moore slanted it to almost look like walmart killed this poor woman. Or at the very least hoped she would die so they would get a big payout. They had the whole white trash family gathered around the dinner table, crying for their mom, all the while implying walmart was evil and to blame. If you are going to attack walmart do it on unfair wages or supporting Chinese goods made in poor work conditions with no environmental standards, not complete bull pucky. Well that was a rant. Which is what Michael Moore at least inspires in people on both sides. That is what I like about him, but not this movie, I say skip it.