Capitalism: A Love Story
by Michael Moore
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Artist: Michael MooreDirector: Michael Moore
Brand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2010-03-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: OV21365
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
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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 e
Movie Reviews of Capitalism: A Love Story
Movie Review: Listening up and moaning still! Michael Moore speaks the truth!
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed this documentary, it was optimistic, funny and, most impressively, very brave in daring to question the prevailing orthodoxy of our times. This drives stupid people crazy, which is unfortunate as it's the stupid people who need to see this. Michael Moore is a heroic individual who knows how to make entertaining but serious documentaries. There is nothing `simplistic' or `Chomsky for children' about old Moore's documentaries. Those who think so just don't understand the genre or are struggling with ideas. All you people out there who are angry at Michael Moore for daring to make a 2 hour documentary, or being too fat, or wearing a baseball cap, or living in a huge mansion; well you really need to choose your evil empire with more wit. Rupert Murdoch, to take one example, has a much vaster footprint on the world than poor little Michael Moore, so aim your spears over there.
Come on guys; give the man a chance, because what he says he says extremely well. Michael Moore is really sticking his neck out in going for the jugular with his `capitalism is evil' message. As well as senators and `normal' people, Moore interviews catholic priests and cardinals who actually agree with him. However, these guys has don't hold much moral weight these days, but never mind hey, because capitalism is really evil, amoral, nasty, brutal (ad your favourite expletive), so we'll let them off.
This documentary lifted my spirits for a few days and ignited my utopian spark which had lain dormant for eons. Moore has a point when he argues that capitalism is just plain wrong. We may indeed dress it up with a, "hey it reflects human nature", malarkey, but still, life is not easy and we are the only species tending the garden, so what's our beef? No wonder there is so much sadness is in world. Capitalism is amoral, raving mad and completely bonkers isn't it? Those who say there is no alternative lack imagination, as do we all. But just because we lack the imagination doesn't mean that our ignorance is the right path. The worship of money has always been frowned upon. Let me remind you what Jesus said; this is from the gospel of Thomas; Jesus said, "A grapevine has been planted outside of the Father, but since it is not sound, it will be pulled up by its root and destroyed." I used to think that this meant organized religion, but it can be applied to capitalism. So the grapevine is the beast we find ourselves trapped under; trapped for lack of an alternative or just our rubbish human nature. I got this idea from Max Weber. Weber thought that we are forever trapped inside the `belly of the beast'. The beast is a infinitely ravenous consuming engine that ruins the planets finite resources and wastes human ingenuity by chewing up our leisure time, and excreting the good bits into profits for the minority. This is the terrible logic capitalism.
Way back in the day, Jesus threw out the money lenders. We should get together and cheerfully sort out our own money lenders. Viva the Kingdom! Deep down I still believe all this, but I wonder if Michael Moore still believes? What I mean is this, are the many reasonable, and on ball, or is all this raving on about 'the machine' just masturbation for very clever people? As George Orwell says, when you put it into words it sounds reasonable; it's when you looked at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it becomes an act of faith.
Moore must realize this, that is, that there are no people tuned into his way of thinking and that capitalism seems to be meta-stable. You may think you can push it over, but you realize that the walls are mile thick and the foundations go four hundred feet underground. This is why capitalism managed to bounce back from the 2008 crash and why the vicious "smash the poor" and "we are all in this together" onslaughts (I'm writing from the U.K were the new UNELECTED Tory party is in the process of ravaging the less well off until the pips squeak!) will go unchallenged by the many.
In his book, Stupid White Men, Michael gives an example of how distracted otherwise intelligent people really are. Your typical sports fan can give your an articulate and penetrating lecture on the vicissitudes of the player transfer market but at the same time profess to finding economics and politics boring (Chomsky also gives this example). I read somewhere that the advert channel was the most watched program in America, enough said! So as the majority march to the sports stadiums and prostrate themselves in front of Simon Cowell and his pair of tits, the class-conscious rich are getting ready to let rip on the unsuspecting (as is now happening in the U.K).
We are forever distracted by the slings and arrows of the entertainment industries, by the machinery of lottery jackpots which bleed our spirits dry by defining our poverty with the eternal carrot and sports that more and more start to look like corporations rather than our local team. As a result, we take our all too human eyes off the capitalist ball. This is what Michael Moore is say (but in a less pessimistic tone, this is Moore's great talent) and I suspect that he knows that he is preaching to the converted. This is why at the end of the documentary he tells the audience that he can't carry on doing this truth telling on his own. Are the masses watching? Will they take the batten?
At the end of the program Moore wraps police crime scene tape around a bank whilst shouting "citizen's arrest" through a mega phone. I enjoyed this part because it was very funny. But it was very telling that no security guards bothered coming out and no police showed up (to speak to Moore). It is like the banks and corporations are so confident of their control that they allow Michael Moore his free speech because, by now, Michael Moore is part of the fixtures and fittings or the furniture of dissent.
Terence McKenna calls this the 5 percent rule. As long as any school of descent remains below 5 per cent of the population, then no money is spent to destroy it. They allow the white noise, or interference in the circuitry, to go unchallenged; as long as only 5 percent take part in the chaos. That is all left wing anger really is to them; noise in the social circuitry, and people like Michael Moore are held up as an example of how free capitalism is because he is allowed to win Oscars and make lots of money . McKenna says that people who worry about all this stuff are an intellectual but alienated minority. So this is all the philosopher ever achieves; alienation.
We are thus alienated by a system that humiliates us and bleeds our spirits dry. Only when the sleeping multitudes managed to tear themselves away from the merry-go-round of self gratification, will we be able to enact change. Michael Moore must realize this. Capitalism is like a wobbly palace, beautiful to look at but extremely unstable. Yes indeed, very very unstable (this is why the left always have the best analysis of what is wrong with the system), her foundations though are solid as granite, which is paradoxical isn't it? Why are the foundations of capitalism so stable then? The foundations are being held together you see, vigilantly and stoically, not by the masters, but by the docility of the overworked and the underpaid. So the overworked and underpaid have to awaken first. Michael Moore probably knows this and that is why he is so entertaining.
Summary of Capitalism: A Love Story
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!Similar DVD Movies
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