Michael Moore’s Anti-Capitalist Attack Dazzles Italians

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September 8th, 2009 12:32 am
Michael Moore’s Anti-Capitalist Attack Dazzles Italians: Review

Review by Farah Nayeri


Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- “Michael, we love you!”

Filmmaker Michael Moore is promoting his new movie “Capitalism: A Love Story” to the media at the Venice Film Festival. He is stopped in his tracks when an Italian female reporter unfurls a banner bearing those adoring words.

Moore is getting good press in Italy, where his movie had its world premiere. “Interessantissimo” (highly interesting), cheered the daily La Stampa, while Corriere della Sera gave it three stars out of four. La Repubblica devoted whole pages to the Michigan-born director, and reported that he had a double serving of spaghetti al pomodoro sent up to his hotel room.

The 55-year-old moviemaker has much to rant about these days, what with the September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the $700 billion taxpayer bailout of the financial system. In his two-hour documentary, we see him try to take an empty canvas bag into the heavily guarded headquarters of a bailed-out bank, declaring, “We’re here to get the money back for the American people.”

Yet Moore covers a lot more than just the Wall Street rescue, or “financial coup d’etat” as he calls it. His documentary is a wholesale indictment of capitalism: funny, gloomy and even a little preachy. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikeinthenews/index.php?id=14390

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Michael Moore is a HYPOCRIT!!1! bECAuse he makes money from his movies it isn't right for him to criticize aney partrs of our capitolist system!1!

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I just think it's funny, how he gloats "I used you until I could get rich enough to make my own movies!", not realizing that the media industries don't give a rat's ass about anything unless it makes money. And not realizing that he'd be something approaching a real hero if he did something more with his wealth than to continue talking about it... but then he would lose his job since I'm not sure he's good at doing anything else and he's made a living by whining about the system. Under those circumstances, would YOU try to change the system that makes you profitable? (No, but I'd reckon he'll try to get you to do it for him. You are expendable.)

Topical issues make money. People flock to it, like the bird-brains that they are...

It's the one thing that Moore, O'Reilly, and various others have in common. Suckering people by spoon-feeding them what they want to hear.




It's a nice racket, really, if you can get in through the doors... front door, side door, back door... just a door is all one needs.