Review of Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) by Jack S — 27 Nov 2010

This is Michael Moore's best and certainly most credible documentary to date. In my opinion he does a very good job in exposing part of what is so wrong with the American politico-financial-economic system. It's fantastic to see him take on those scumbag bankers on Wall Street, and expose the amount of power they have over America's politicians.

Ok, so there was no expose of any New World Order agenda, and Moore was never going to expose the evils of fractional reserve banking or the US Federal Reserve. That would have been too much to ask of a seemingly dedicated socialist, whose movie was distributed by the Jewish Weinstein brothers, and who obviously wants to stay in favour in Hollywood.

However, some of the insanity of excessive capitalism and Wall Street financial gambling and self-interest is exposed. And Hollywood is welcome to make as many movies about that as they like, as far as I'm concerned.

Still, as usual and as expected, Moore puts his own biases, hypocrisies and naiivety into this doco. He simplistically implies that the failure of Wall Street is a complete failure of capitalism, and of course he implies that "democratic socialism" is a better alternative to capitalism (of course it isn't). And he continually implies that the poor are poor because the rich are rich (which is actually not true). So as we've seen before from Moore, he's good at criticising, but not so good at offering solutions.

There was also Moore's scapegoating of Reagan and his remarkably favourable treatment of Barack Obama. Especially as Obama showed after guaranteeing the mega banks would be protected from future losses with US taxpayers money, that he is every bit as much the banker's lackey as what George W. Bush was.

Still, despite it's faults, I took a lot of pleasure in seeing a mainstream filmmaker stick it to those bankers on Wall Street. This is definitely a doco I'd recommend (as long as you're wary of Moore's own political agenda).