Overall, as with other Michael Moore essays like Sicko (2007), just a moving and powerfully persuasive film with shocking impact of outrage. I loved it.
OK, so it's a bit baggy in places, but it's in the protracted accumulation of case histories that the case becomes overwhelming; the synthesising of disparate data into one towering tornado of evidence. It is so refreshing to have someone make a movie like this, with a radical message for socio-political improvement.
The quotations from great iconic Americans like Benjamin Franklin, the alternative history of a fairer USA under a healthier FD Roosevelt (had he not died before the end of WWII), the silly stunts Moore got up to at the end, the measured melancholy tones Moore uses in his voice-over, well, they all hit home, and even watching as I did under unoptimised conditions (in dribs and drabs at home), I did what I did toward the end of his previous film, Sicko, and wept. Manohla Dargis, New York Times (09/22/09) expresses it well: "Like most of his movies, Capitalism is a tragedy disguised as a comedy; it’s also an entertainment."
Ebert queries what Moore means by the title. I think I know: the love of the American people for money: for the vast majority, a love unrequited, and a dream of a love now lost.
- Rating: Full price
- When seen: 1 Jun 2010
- Where seen: Home
- More information: IMDB | RottenTomatoes | Wikipedia
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Amendments: added year of release to the film "Sicko".
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