AP: 'Capitalism: A Love Story' "couldn't be more relevant or resonant"

via MichaelMoore.com:



September 18th, 2009 4:30 pm
Showmanship Moore's top commodity in 'Capitalism'


By Christy Lemire / AP


LOS ANGELES — How do you make a movie about the country's current economic crisis and actually get people to see it?

Two obstacles most obviously arise: illustrating such a potentially dry subject in a compelling way, and persuading audiences to pay money for information they can get at home — and feel depressed about — for free.

Having Michael Moore as our guide certainly helps. Twenty years after he took on General Motors with his powerful debut "Roger & Me," the proud provocateur is aiming at the same sorts of targets with his latest documentary, "Capitalism: A Love Story."

This is vintage Moore, reflecting both the filmmaker's fondness for manipulation and his strengths as a showman. As he did with "Sicko" and "Fahrenheit 9/11," he typically oversimplifies a complicated topic to make it accessible and amusing for the broadest possible audience. Obviously, when he returns to GM's headquarters two decades later — and the security guard sees him and his crew coming from a mile away — he's doing it as a hilarious spectacle and he doesn't really expect to get into the building for an interview.

It's good for a laugh, as is so much of "Capitalism." But Moore also tells moving stories of specific families who've lost their homes to foreclosure, or airline pilots whose wages are so low, they rely on secondary jobs and food stamps to survive. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikeinthenews/index.php?id=14413

them in a theater.

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don't have to. When we do go anywhere, it's never more than 20 mi. at the most.

a "documentary" tells facts without any form of manipulation.

Also, people whine and bleat about everybody being dumbed down - why can't the writers smart people up, instead?

..... they'd watch it on PBS or the History Channel.

Is that better?

I will gladly drive two hours to see it in a large city. In my small conservative community, Moore's films are as welcome as bubonic plague.