As a professional movie critic (as opposed to your buddy; yeah, THAT one), I had to refrain from leaping out of my seat and yelling, “fetchin-A!” at the screen a few times while viewing “Capitalism: A Love Story”. Plus, “fetching” sounds so lame.
Already the naysayers are in full-force, trying to discredit the Man so as to undermine his Message whilst completely missing the point. As you may recall, they do this to him with every movie he makes before concentrating on the actual
films, sometimes even making whole movies to counter what they see as feature-length op-eds.
They have their work cut out for them this time, as Moore delves further into verifiable facts than ever before. Unless footage has been shamelessly edited and removed from context, it’s hard to talk away the memos, the speeches on the floor of the Senate, or the money trail. Something stinks in America, and it may not be Capitalism necessarily, but the love affair we have it that seems to trump all rationale.
Some of Moore’s antics in this movie seem less relevant than some earlier ones (particularly in “Sicko”, when he took some folks to get badly needed medical care in Cuba). But much like the folks being paid to attack and discredit Moore for “Sicko”, who later grew a conscience and recanted, admitting that he was dead on RIGHT. “Capitalism” is likely to start a lot of arguments and then END them.
Rich’s Movie Grade: B+Rated R for some language.
Director: Michael Moore
Writer: Michael Moore
