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Thu Oct 01, 2009 at 10:26 AM CDT
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If you hiss at the screen or clap at movies, then this is the film for you.
Michael Moore's Capitalism A Love Story was screened to numerous non paying Dallas area residents at the Magnolia Theater in the West Village last night, before its release tomorrow. Thanks to redcarpetcrash.com and Sam the Mailman, I won a pass to see the movie. Many others received passes from AM1360 Rational Radio. And yes folks, it was definitely taken advantage of, with 1 million people attending! Ok not really. That was the tea bagger march-allegedly. But the theater did appear to have 99% of the seats filled.
I recently read a political hit piece aka movie review from the NY Post, that poo poo'd on every aspect of the film, so I went into it not expecting greatness. But having read that review it makes me wonder if the author even watched the movie? Granted there were a ton of recycled 1950s footage and a few Soviets marching, but the movie was a lot better than I expected. |
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| One scene that stood out to me, was a foreclosure raid in Lexington NC. If you don't know a lot about me, this is a town where I have a great uncle who owns a good portion of the city's real estate, and a few cousins who have had run ins with the local Republican former sheriff due to his wanting to show boat on local and national TV with a pink jail cell. And parading for Michael Moore was no exception for the Davidson County Sheriff's Dept. It took 9 police vehicles to go to a house that had 4 people inside recording their arrival. The deputies then took a sledge to the deadbolt to open the door, breaking the frame in the process, since the residents would not come out. All over a foreclosure? It leads me to believe that the banks and government now considers a home owner a squatter that has to be relocated or simply thrown out, much like a prawn from District 9.
Feeling bad for foreclosure victims is not the entire premise of the film. All I need to do is look out my window at home for that. It also looks at how we got into this mess. It explains how Goldman Sachs infiltrated the government, and how spineless many of our elected officials have become-both Republican and Democrat. Nobody could explain what a derivative was, oddly enough. Not even the financial professors. But yet, the fat cats on Wall Street made billions on them. It was also what brought us to our knees.
Moore likens Wall Street to a giant casino, with brokers hedging bets on bets and parlaying what they can. He is right. You can't base an entire financial system on guesses and hunches. That is why we don't have an entire economy based on pork futures. If we did, we'd not only deep fry bacon and put it on a Whopper, but we'd be pushing sub prime pork to every corner of the country for consumption to drive up the price of pigs. Except in our current case, the pigs have titles like CEO.
Go watch this movie. Even if you hate Michael Moore, watch this movie. It will at least get you thinking about what you should really be protesting and how you can change what is going on. |
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