Capitalism: A Love Story is the newest film by maverick documentary filmmaker Michael Moore and concerns the American love affair with Capitalism as a whole, tracking it from how the banks went grovelling the US Congress before the financial disaster in 2008 to how it affects every day Americans struggling to make a living.
I'm not sure if a film like this can necessarily be enjoyable, as some of the charts in the doco are harrowing to watch, especially one where employers took out secret life insurance on their workers in the event of their death and another where former US president Franklin Roosevelt unveiled his plans for a second bill of rights guaranteeing a job, a decent home and wage and universal healthcare, sadly this never came to pass, another area that made me stop and think was the eventual slashing of banking regulations, allowing them to run amok however they wanted.
Part of the film is also a comedy, as Moore tries in vain to make a citizen's arrest of the bankers themselves he feels are responsible for the mess the US finds itself in and the end of the film with a lounge singer singing the Internationale making me laugh somewhat, no doubt put in the film to lighten the mood.
This film should be seen as far as I'm concerned, normally I'm not a big Moore fan as he does border on conspiracy theory territory but here he's on the mark and it welcomely I find paints a different view of the States than is reported, so I'll give it a 3 and a half out of 5.
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