Film Tackles Capitalism and Identity - “Supercapitalist,” a new financial thriller set in Hong Kong

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/world/asia/17iht-letter17.html

The most immediately striking take-away from “Supercapitalist” is the moral hierarchy it imposes on business. The only truly virtuous capitalists are the technologists — hard-working, creative and focused on innovations that will help ordinary people as well as the bottom line. Next best are the makers of real things, in this case a logistics company. Worst of all are the financiers, a treacherous, murderous bunch who care only about making money even if the price is human lives.

In light of the public attitude toward bankers, those who work for Mitt Romney should watch this film and talk to its star and screenwriter, Derek Ting. That’s because Mr. Ting has made a film that raises some provocative political questions, but his personal agenda is entirely artistic: He set out to tell “a universal, human story.” His ethical ranking of business, with the money- changers emphatically at the bottom, is an instinctive choice, not an intellectual one. That says a lot about current views on the subject, even on one of the world’s most energetic capitalist frontiers.

Mr. Ting’s exploration of globalization is more nuanced and more self-conscious. “Supercapitalist,” which moves from boardrooms and shipping yards to casinos and bars filled with call girls, does a fine job conveying the mood of a city in the throes of rapid economic transformation. Mr. Ting told an audience at a screening in New York that Hong Kong, where he lives, is “a make-it-happen town.”

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One is that the rapacious capitalist villains are white Americans (one of them, inevitably, an investment banker at “Silverman Brothers”) and their victims are hard-working, family-minded Chinese business people. At a time when the United States is worried that Chinese capitalists are eating their Yankee lunch, Mr. Ting’s Hong Kong-nurtured perspective is a valuable counterpoint.

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2. I'm pretty sure you're in the wrong place.

[Proud Corporate Dem]

3. I'm pretty sure you don't have to hate bankers and the finance industry to be a Democrat.

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4. I'm pretty sure this isn't the only post you've made today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1159522


Now why don't you just leave before someone has to go to the trouble of tombstoning you?

[tama]

5. Funny

First I thought your criticism was that the movies are not critical enough...

But you are right of course that both Wall Street parties of US are owned by the Banks.