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Capitalism: A Love Story
Cinema Eye with Masai: Capitalism: A Love Story
Directing: 3/4
Writing: 4/4
Acting: 3/4
Total: 3/4
“There's no ‘Love' for ‘Capitalism' in this ‘Story'”
I'm sure we're all aware of this terrible
economic crisis that's hit America. But does anyone
know where it truly started? Michael Moore does,
and he's more than willing to rub our faces in it. His
“Capitalism: A Love Story” is a grand roast of a
movie about how our economy has gone to
poop over the past 20 years. It can be shocking,
heartbreaking stuff, and it can also be laugh out
loud funny, as is typical with Moore's films. It'll
have you on your knees and in deep thought about
how your money's been wasted.
The film opens with a message from the
60s saying that anyone faint of heart or who is
easily upset shouldn't watch this. They got that
right. Michael Moore leaves no economic stone
unturned as he traces back to the Reagan
Administration for when capitalism went down the
drain. Real people are shown suffering through
foreclosures, lost jobs and companies who take out
life insurance policies on their dead employees.
And of course, it wouldn't be a Michael Moore
movie without some outrageous stunts perpetrated
by the man himself. Citizens arrests of bank CEOs
and crime scene investigations follow. My only
problems are that Moore chose too big a piece of
bread to spread his butter of wisdom. According to
him, capitalism worked before Reagan's election.
What can we do to make it better? Can it get
better? Hey, there's always socialism, right? Also, I
can't help but feel that he's being a little bit
hypocritical with this movie. By releasing it, he's
apart of the system he hates so much. He's beaten
out many other documentarians that made movies
this weekend, so where are they going to get
money to feed their families? Case in
point. But despite these tiny grievances, Moore
shows us only the way he can how America, the
richest country in the world, has sold out it's
workers and worst of all, given the greedy fat cats
in this country everything and more.
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