Thursday, October 8, 2009
No one could ever accuse Michael Moore of subtlety. His latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, functions as both scathing corporate takedown and bleak rumination on the future of free enterprise in America. It contains just about everything we’ve come to expect from the portly provocateur, from the faux-reassuring narration to the usual darkhorse parade of grandiose stunts and skillfully edited interviews.
But despite all of this, Capitalism: A Love Story is still an important — even essential — film that deserves public attention from both sides of the aisle. In many ways, it’s the most bi-partisan statement of Moore’s career. He blames almost everyone in the U.S. government for bowing to the bailout and contributing to our current recession. He paints the Republicans as fear-mongering pit bulls and the Democrats as lilly-livered bagmen who blindly believe that democracy and capitalism are inexorably bound. Neither party is given an ounce of quarter from the ham-fisted furor of Moore, who seems to delight in his newfound role as equal-opportunity offender.
Like Sicko and Fahrenheit 9/11 before it, the movie is often exceedingly clever. The opening credit sequence convincingly compares our country’s decadence to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Other highlights include Moore attempting to make a citizen’s arrest of the entire AIG board and wrapping yellow crime-scene tape around the perimeter of Wall Street itself.
However, all this fun but futile grandstanding would feel unearned if it weren’t for the movie’s more poignant moments. Sometimes Moore will stop short in his blustering long enough for us to hear from the real victims of corporate greed, such as the blue collar family being forced off their ancestral farm or the widower whose wife’s life insurance was cashed in by her Wal-Mart employers as part of their self-described “dead peasants” program. Watching Moore’s elderly father, a laid-off auto worker, tour the ruins of the General Motors plant in Flint, Mich., is a painful lesson in what only the most heartless among us could call progress. In a movie so full of righteous sound and fury, these moments of thoughtful silence speak loudest of all.
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Movie review: 'Capitalism: A Love Story'
Capitalism: a love story movie was best movie for me after long time. But I accept this not gone to fans very much. I love this meaningful documentary movie more than immature love story
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