'Scathing, effective and hilarious': Michael Moore film blasts Bank ‘Coup D’Etat,’ State Bailout

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September 6th, 2009 9:46 pm
Michael Moore Blasts Bank ‘Coup D’Etat,’ State Bailout: Review

Review by Farah Nayeri


Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- “We’re here to get the money back for the American people,” says filmmaker Michael Moore, as he tries to take an empty canvas bag into the heavily guarded headquarters of a bailed-out bank.

The 55-year-old satirist has much to rant about, what with the September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the $700 billion taxpayer bailout of the financial system. Those milestones should have been enough to fill up all two hours of his documentary “Capitalism: A Love Story,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival at the weekend.

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

“Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil,” he lectures in the final voiceover. “You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that’s good for all people, and that something is called democracy.”

Wearing a dark jacket and a denim cap at a packed Venice news conference yesterday, Moore said he told his crew to consider this “the last film they let us make.” His aim, he said, was to “speak the words that need to be spoken,” and “raise the issues that need to be raised.” ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikeinthenews/index.php?id=14385