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Muckraker doc maker Michael Moore gets a cold greeting from a guard at GM headquarters in “Capitalism: A Love Story.” |
“I refuse to live in a country like this!” Michael Moore declares, “and I’m not leaving!”
In Moore’s ingeniously provocative, amusingly muckraking, obnoxiously hilarious, shamelessly showboating doc “Capitalism: A Love Story,” the filmmaker takes on the dark side of America’s financial force with pugnacious effrontery.
This movie is so wild and over-the-top in its denunciation of the evils of capitalism that it stands to become a fiscal version of “Reefer Madness.”
Moore tackles the outrageous acts of banks bailed out by taxpayers. He reveals how big companies secretly buy life insurance on their employees, so companies collect a bonus when a worker gets killed or terminally ill.
“Capitalism” doesn’t break much new ground in Mooreland. It’s another anger-powered rant at the status quo and a call to arms for the proletariat to rise up against corporate abuse and hypocrisy. (Read more…)