"Paper Planes" Powers Capitalism: A Love Story Trailer


I've watched the trailer for Capitalism: A Love Story, documentarian Michael Moore's new film about the American financial collapse and ensuing bailout, twice now, and it feels like a meh type of thing, a shrug. The film may be a bit more pointed, barbed, focused, but this plays like Moore lite, to be honest. M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" is a good musical choice, if only to match the gun-cocking blurb from one of the interviewees, but the use of clips of a smirking President Bush — three times — feels like a bit of an emotional cheat, like trading on the (deserved) ill will of his cronyism and bluster, the phony excuses for war in Iraq, the botched Hurricane Katrina relief, etcetera. Sure, the guy was asleep at the wheel, and/or suffering from a case of senior-itis certainly the last year-plus of his presidency, but he didn't actually engineer the economic downfall, did he?

 

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