Review of Greed (2020) by Mauro_Lanari — 17 Jan 2022

Among the many negative consequences of the pandemic there is also the disappearance of independent cinema: by now financiers, producers, distributors belong to the streaming giants and consequently can no longer be attacked, much less the political-economic system that legitimizes them, the neoliberal aka turbocapitalist one.

Winterbottom's film does what little is still possible to do: it alludes to them, explains the difference between tax evasion and avoidance (allowed by a specific legislation), shows Monte Carlo as one of the many offshore havens not abroad in some remote Caribbean island but here in Europe, but then he is forced to take it out on an intolerably too small fish.