Capitalism: A Love Story, 2009
Hey all like I mentioned in the earlier post I'm in the mode for documentaries. So today's review is Capitalism: A Love Story. As many of you will know this is a Michael Moore film thus it will be my favourite type of left-wing anti-American type of film.
So what is Capitalism: A Love Story about I hear you ask? I say maybe you should listen to the news or possibly take a class in economics because it's pretty complicated. So credit for Moore to dumb it down for us simpletons. The film is really examines the pitfalls of living in a country or system that is purely based on free enterprise and idealistically thinking that everything is sweet when it may not be. As the GFC hit the world and CEO's went running in the streets begging poor people to pay for their lavish lifestyles and thus everyone else to freak out and went running and screaming into the streets. For many people in America this would have been a reasonable reaction and I don't mean the uber rich. Although it was horribly dark times for many, the GFC couldn't have just happened? There must've been signs? There has to be some sort of explanation as to why no one saw it coming or chose to ignore that it was coming. And this film explores the pitfalls of being a capitalist country.
As for the film I have to say was not as hard hitting or informative as Moore's previous efforts. Unlike his previous movies this film lacked coherence, especially in the first half of the film. And although granted it's his style of film making to jump from one point to another but usually it wasn't as hard to follow. For me who is a complete novice when it comes to the economics I was a little confused as I wasn't getting the picture he was trying to paint. Or the point that he was trying to make for it didn't quite fit with his initial argument. However the movie certainly picked up in the second half, now with more context and explanations as to the previously mentioned facts it started to finally come together. Although there were still parts of the film that were interesting but didn't really fit with his argument. When I think about it Moore does do that with his other films but I guess I haven't paid much attention to it or the rest of the film was excellent thus you could sort of see where he was trying to do or ignore it. But Capitalism: A Love Story was a little disjointed.
But regardless of the criticism this was an entertaining and insightful piece of work that is definitely worth as watch. It gave it some clarity to what happened in the US and although one-sided but Moore is always rooting for the little people who seem to get ignored in the US.
So finally not his best work and say what you may about Moore he sure makes some entertaining films and very important and valid arguments. 7.8/10
As for the film I have to say was not as hard hitting or informative as Moore's previous efforts. Unlike his previous movies this film lacked coherence, especially in the first half of the film. And although granted it's his style of film making to jump from one point to another but usually it wasn't as hard to follow. For me who is a complete novice when it comes to the economics I was a little confused as I wasn't getting the picture he was trying to paint. Or the point that he was trying to make for it didn't quite fit with his initial argument. However the movie certainly picked up in the second half, now with more context and explanations as to the previously mentioned facts it started to finally come together. Although there were still parts of the film that were interesting but didn't really fit with his argument. When I think about it Moore does do that with his other films but I guess I haven't paid much attention to it or the rest of the film was excellent thus you could sort of see where he was trying to do or ignore it. But Capitalism: A Love Story was a little disjointed.
But regardless of the criticism this was an entertaining and insightful piece of work that is definitely worth as watch. It gave it some clarity to what happened in the US and although one-sided but Moore is always rooting for the little people who seem to get ignored in the US.
So finally not his best work and say what you may about Moore he sure makes some entertaining films and very important and valid arguments. 7.8/10
