Movie Review: Michael Moore’s Capitalism Is Not Poppin’ – Some Interesting Points
Not Poppin’ and not poppin’ popcorn either!
Michael Moore’s new film Capitalism: A Love Story is somewhat interesting but does not hold up to Fahrenheit 9/11. It is lacking in new information, has an overabundance of “Americana” image montages and has a bad soundtrack.
In general, it was just concocted poorly. It was a concoction and not a groomed film.
The film is not anti-capitalism. It is asking for the U.S. to return to democracy, leave plutonomy in the dust and not allow companies and millionaires to bypass laws and ethics in the name of business. At the beginning of the film Michael Moore offers a warning by comparing the U.S. to the fall of the greedy Roman Empire.
One of the few eye-opening parts of Capitalism included when Moore interviewed people whose relatives were the victims of companies taking out “dead peasant” life insurance policies on them. The living family members – the peasants – were left to rot in poverty by Wal-Mart, Bank of America, Citibank and other companies while the businesses collected millions of tax free dollars from their former employees’ deaths.
Another interesting part was Moore’s explanation of how Goldman-Sachs employees ransacked Congress and bought their way into high-ranking positions at the Federal Reserve. They are now some of the Federal Reserve’s biggest shareholders. Again, the American public is left to rot unknowingly ignorant and stupid. Most people do not even realize the U.S. taxpayers have to bail-out the privately operated Fed if they mess up.
Toward the end of the movie, the several of us watching wanted to rip our ears off when Moore was speaking over a horrible opera song that seemed to go on for an eternity. The rest of the music did not fit so well either even though it was a prominent part of the film.
There were a few funny parts to Capitalism – mostly in the commentary and when Moore went to Wall Street to do citizen’s arrests of the financial institutions’ board members and executives. He also went to collect the bail-out money from AIG.
If you have a free movie pass, go to the film. If you have to pay, wait for the video.
The picture of Michael Moore declaring the NY Stock Exchange a crime scene is owned by Overture Films.
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