Capitalism: a love story
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Capitalism: a love story |
| Original title | Capitalism: A Love Story |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Moore |
| script | Michael Moore |
| production | Michael Moore, Kathleen Glynn |
| cut | Jessica Brunetto |
Capitalism: A Love Story is a documentary by the American director Michael Moore . The film deals with the financial crisis from 2007 , the US economy in transition between the end of the term of office of George W. Bush and the beginning of the term of office of Barack Obama and the US economic stimulus program in 2009 . The film premiered on September 6, 2009 at the 66th Venice Film Festival . In Switzerland, the film opened in cinemas on October 22, 2009, and the German premiere was on November 12, 2009.
action
The current situation in the United States is compared to ancient Rome , in which a small elite held most of the money and power. With wars and dull conversation the people would be pacified, and the exploited slaves would one day bring the empire down.
Examples are used to show the impact of capitalism and the financial crisis on ordinary people: a family who has lost their house, a pilot who gets his airline's annual salary of only $ 16,000, companies backed by secret life insurance policies earned on the death of employees, so-called “Dead Peasants” Insurances ( Tote-Bauern-Versicherung ) ( English peasants : derogatory for farmers).
The banks and the involvement of various governments with high-ranking representatives of the banking industry are presented as the cause of the problems. In particular, President Ronald Reagan , during whose term of office the increase in profits through downsizing was introduced at many American companies, and President George W. Bush , during whose term of office the economic crisis fell, to whose solution a financial package was passed by Lehman Brothers with the assistance of bank representatives , are in the criticism of Moore.
In addition to interviews with workers and representatives of the Catholic Church , who call capitalism a sin, Moore's typical provocative actions are shown, such as driving in front of various banks with an empty money transporter to personally reclaim the billions raised by taxpayers to rescue banks.
Moore also looks at the social reforms that were no longer carried out due to the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt and contrasts them with alleged achievements in Germany, Italy and Japan after the Second World War, which were mainly achieved through Roosevelt's cooperation in the reconstruction of these countries be.
The film ends with a happy ending , showing how Barack Obama takes power and shows solidarity with striking factory workers in Chicago.
Moore himself describes the film as an "excellent Appointment Film" (Engl. Date movie ). It includes “desire, passion, romance and 14,000 jobs that are cut every day. It is a forbidden love, a love whose name one dares not pronounce. Hell, out with it: capitalism. "
Reviews
“As always, Michael Moore can be accused of an extremely selective perception, distortion of facts and cheap polemics . Nor does it offer a real solution, at most it suggests that perhaps one could try again with a little socialism. But the decisive factor is: 'Capitalism: A Love Story' is an all-round honest, passionate project. The film calls for justice and change for a world in which too many people are far too bad. "
“The conditions that the film describes are terrifying, but Moore primarily wants to provoke - and manipulate. Instead of explaining connections, he combines randomly selected examples into a diffuse villain piece. Nevertheless, Moore's criticism of capitalism is justified - and for that very reason deserves a better film. Conclusion: Michael Moore's pointed, but also quite arbitrary polemics shows the price Americans pay for their love of capitalism. "
“Once again, the filmmaker presents his polemical criticism as a mixture of interviews, reports, populist satire and sentiment, but without finding a convincing line of argument. The optimism into which the film flows with a view to the change of government to President Obama remains rather superficial. "
Awards
- At the Venice Film Festival , Moore won the “Leoncino d'Oro” (“Little Golden Lion”) and the festival's open prize.
- The documentary was also nominated for the Golden Lion.
- 2009: Awards Circuit Community Awards (Second Place) for Best Documentary
- 2010 Broadcast Film Critics Association Award nominated for Best Documentary
- 2009 Chicago Film Critics Association Award nominated for Best Documentary
- 2009 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award (Third Place) for Best Documentary
- 2009 Houston Film Critics Society Awards nominated for Best Documentary
- 2009 Image Award nominated for Best Documentation
- 2009 Online Film & Television Association nominated for Best Documentary
- 2009 Online Film Critics Society Awards nominated for Best Documentary
- 2009 Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Documentation
- 2009 St. Louis Film Critics Association for Best Documentary
- 2009 Toronto International Film Festival (Second Place) for Best Documentary
- 2009 Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards nominated for Best Documentary
- 2010 Writers Guild of America nominated for Best Documentary
Individual evidence
- ^ Untitled Michael Moore Projectat Worst Previews.com
- ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt1232207/releaseinfo
- ↑ What is “Dead Peasant” Insurance? ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Michael J. Sandel: What money cannot buy. Ullstein eBooks, 2012, p. 91, ISBN 3843705097 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ Christina Tilmann: Michael Moore: Hands up and out! In: tagesspiegel.de . September 7, 2009, accessed May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Political Cinema from the USA, ZDF ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Daniel Sander: Venice Film Festival: Capitalism is nonsense. In: Spiegel Online . September 6, 2009, accessed May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Cinema.de: film review
- ↑ Capitalism: A Love Story. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ La Biennale di Venezia - The 66th Festival Collateral Awards . In: labiennale.org . September 12, 2009. Archived from the original on September 15, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 23, 2009.
- ↑ Tom O'Neil: Venice Film Festival unveils Golden Lion lineup led by Michael Moore . In: Los Angeles Times , July 30, 2009. Retrieved September 23, 2009.
Web links
- Capitalism: A Love Story in the Internet Movie Database (English)