Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

Wonderful character development!

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

The acting in this movie is really good.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

20 years in from "Roger and Me" and Michael Moore still continues to be one of the ultimately greatest voices for political sanity I know of, by making what is BY FAR one of the most important documentaries EVER! I'm re-watching it at home, and realizing TOTALLY, that it is/(was) impossible to get it all on the first viewing... and I'm now also discovering that the DVD extras are truly FANTASTIC! Congressman Elijah Cummings, shedding a tear from his right eye, as he is being interviewed by Michael about the PERMANENT and catastrophic LOSSES being suffered by middle class and poor people, is SO SUPERB! The FDR speech about a new (2nd) Bill of Rights is incredible!!! Spread this film around... it is relevant now more than ever... and its issues are SO crucial to our survival as a species on the planet and any lasting hopes for "We the People" to be free from the obscene + greedy bastards' oppressions! If I were a teacher my class would see this film... whatever I was charged with teaching. Live forever Michael Moore - you are TRULY a saint!!!

There have been a number of excellent Documentaries and Dramas about the near financial collapse in the late 2000's and there can't really be enough. The exploitation of the rich on the poor or less fortunate is hardly anything new in Human History, but here we are. Needing to be reminded once again how the deck is stacked and decadence delivers once again. Cue Michael Moore.Moore's shaggy black comedy strokes are here once again to deliver this as irony and entertainment. He is quite a master at this type of thing and is the best of this breed of shoot from the hip filmmakers. His conservative critics love to personalize the assault on his audacious claims, usually starting their witticisms with: "the fat guy", or "needing a bath", Michael Moore is at it again.When debating, if you are in trouble and can't refute the facts, begin your attack on a personal level. So when you see this you know you are doing something right and MM knows that is exactly what he is doing. Something right."We need the deviate in society", says Lenny Bruce, "we need the deviate to tell us when we are screwing up". The voice from the wilderness that is heard and headed, or at least draws attention to the kind of things that the Mainstream Media is reluctant or restricted from presenting.Love it or hate it. Mr. Moore's relentless rants and brightly lit mirrors are a welcome and fun way of telling us when we are screwing up and we do screw up quite a bit so he is here to stay. The scruffy curmudgeon, the gadfly in the ointment, is a sorely needed entity picking away at our peccadilloes.

Well, the beginning was quite good, I liked the different kinds of Capitalism-critics , especially when different people where shown, who told from their personal experience when capitalism hit their life's and destroyed their futures. When people told that banks profits from deaths of employes, when shown the immorality of finance system, by stealing from those, who don't have anything, or cheating on government and whole society. Yes, that was really good done, congrats Mr. Moore. But then it became ridiculous - maybe some find it ironic or even funny when Moore enters an armored car and try's to get the back the money from banks, by just asking with a nice $- signed bag in his hands. I don't. It took all the seriousness the move made it worth looking. Finally I was upset of the Utopian view which he made that all may be end up well, by showing some rebellious Workers - No Mr. Moore - thats not enough. Finance system won't collapse because some thousands go on strike - it takes much more : Organization, studies in Marxism, teaching young's , and and and. So he simple didn't get in the essence of capitalism-critics: All in all and populistic show up how capitalism f**** society. But still worths a watch.

Michael Moore puts aside the majority of his comical shenanigans. It helps the film in terms of sincerity, but damages it's entertainment value. Moore usually has a way of making us laugh while getting us to think. Here, however, he makes some misguided choices. Actor Wallace Shawn discusses politics, Moore asks priests if Capitalism is evil, and he only interviews people that fail to define what derivatives are. His commentary and added effects to news archive footage is sometimes well done, but usually lacks subtlety. As always, he brings forth some horrendous injustices. It would just be nice to see him offer a defense for his accused.