Absolutely brilliant

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

This is overall a good documentary. It begins with a list of what is wrong with our society, and makes some good points. However, none of these ideas are even remotely new - they are simply a foundation for the later parts of the film. Included in this section are some questionable exaggerations and misrepresentations of facts, but not many and not in ways that invalidate the thesis. Then the film moves on to proposed solutions. The propositions are almost good - almost - but they are way to simplistic. It seems that all the nuance of understanding presenting in the beginning has been thrown aside. We KNOW that optimal resource distribution would be great, and we also know from our attempts that it is very, very difficult. Our system sucks, but its better than almost anything else we've tried, and throwing it aside for something untested and idealistic will result in inevitable disaster. Still, many of the ideas presented in this part of the film are interesting, and if not new, at least presented in new ways.Overall, I would recommend this movie. However, I think they creators are wrong in some very major ways, and ultimately all this film has to offer is more reasons why change would be nice but no realistic change proposals.

With films like this, the time seems to fly by, and it doesn't seem like over 2 and a half hours has gone by at all! We start with an analysis of the "Monetary Market" which dissects the short-sighted quick-profit at the expense of earth's resources paradigm we currently exist in. It stresses the suffering caused to all sorts of people around the world, especially because so many people profit from the sale of money itself, which puts nothing back into the world, and allows very unscrupulous people to profit and exist in consummate luxury, whilst the resources of third world countries are raped and the people made to suffer. It then describes other problems looming up like the shortage of oil by 2050, and how nothing is being done about it because of the myopic nature of the current business model. It goes on to elucidate a far better way forward for mankind, with a society based on the proper management of earth's resources, a common sense approach to understanding that we all need water, food, shelter, clothing and love! It then creates such a society with our current technologies, in a model form and demonstrates its function. An excellent, all-embracing film and one which will leave you with your sentiments aligned to Peter Joseph's, hoping, willing and urging the changes to happen.

The filmmakers certainly capture attention with facts and information about natural resources, materialistic culture, and bring to front and center many serious and credible issues facing the human race and the planet. Unfortunately, they failed to get even one contrarian argument and frequently edited their subjects to fit their agenda.What started out as an excellent and important subject for serious discussion and attention turned into gobbledygook when they filmmakers went on a tirade about how the world should work.Nothing wrong with a little bit of naive idealism, but if you're going to make a movie about such serious subject matter, you should have a clue about how the real world works and how problems are actually solved.

Great documentary. If you are very educated person with open mind without rigid, automatic thinking and you can think out of the box you will love this movie. If you aren't then this movie will be a harsh attack on your ego and the illusionary personality it created. You will hate it...As shown in documentary identification/attachment to illusionary mental concepts of religion, ideology, status, wealth, race, nationality, country and other similar is caused by a lack of control over one's mind. Identifications with such fleeting mental concepts are only possible when a person's mind is not open and has become very rigid. Such identifications/attachments have proved to be extremely dangerous and destructive to all life on this planet. The madness of human mind can be clearly seen on global scale. What has been happening around the world is a direct projection of all individual minds of all people. The history of human kind is a history of mental illness. If you look at the history of human kind using medical criteria you would come up with a diagnosis of severely psychopathic mental disorder. Considering the current state of life on our planet projection of such mental attitude is no longer acceptable...