Michael Moore's Grapes of Wrath

[marmar]

via MichaelMoore.com:



October 6th, 2009 11:27 AM
Michael Moore's Grapes of Wrath

By Dan Siegel / Huffington Post


Michael Moore has made the most important and urgent political film of our time. In fact, he might have made the most American of films since the populist cinema of Frank Capra.

I hope that Capitalism: A Love Story gets the proper national hearing and deep respect it so well deserves at this time in our history.

Moore provides us a much needed alternative narrative to the new Gilded Age fantasies first launched on TV screens during the rule of Reagan, unchallenged or even seconded in the Clinton years, and taken to extremis by the Cheney/Bush crowd.

This film is a logical capstone to a twenty year documentary journey surveying the carcasses left behind by bootstrap capitalist ideology and cold-hearted greed, all greased by Washington's collusion. Moore's long march has taken us from the GM ghost town of Flint to the ultimate corporate crime scene pulled off by Wall Street during the Great Heist of the past year.

A film should be judged, in part, like an Olympics gymnastic performance based on degree of difficulty. A perfect 10 is earned here for deflating the decades-long cultural celebration of and blind worship to the victors of Casino Capitalism. Pulling this off in a documentary form by using subversive humor, great music, moving personal storytelling, impressive journalistic expose and grand analysis is truly no easy feat. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-in-the-news/michael-moores-grapes-wrath

[asdjrocky]

1. But seriously dude, it's no Zombieland.

[Skink]

2. There's a double feature.

[asdjrocky]

3. Now that would be sweet.

[kenny blankenship]

4. Even though the subject matter is the same?

[Ian David]

5. Do a movie trailer mash-up: Zombieland- A Love Story. n/t

[asdjrocky]

6. OMG that would be funny.

[appal_jack]

9. Capitalism: A Zombie Love Story... n/t

[MindPilot]

11. Zombieism: A Capitalist Love Story n/t

[valerief]

7. Everyone should see it if only to prove there's support for its message. nt

[ThoughtCriminal]

8. I've always wondered

Just WHERE are the Grapes of Wrath stored?

[MindPilot]

10. During the Reagan adminstration....

they were stomped into whine.

[mdmc]

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