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sirkh1 [ 8.0 ]
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One man in the beginning of the film says he does not understand why there is no rebellion from the people in America about the often-discussed inequalities between the rich and the poor. We have a Tea Party, a group borne weeks after Obama’s inauguration dedicated to throwing him OUT of the White House and getting a Republican back in (fuck anyone who tells you different), but we cannot organize for actual justice.
The movie opens with footage of people robbing banks. Ten minutes later, a man who’s house is about to get foreclosed on is sickened by the injustice of the country – and talks about robbing a bank to get money. He’s not kidding. He later says he is starting to understand the mindsets of people who go into public offices and just start shooting. Any GOP candidate talking about how great America is should really look at what its people have been reduced to.
The complex economic principles and Wall Street’s unprecedented greed may not be things that regular people want to think about, much less talk about, very often. And yes, films like “Inside Job” examine them more objectively.
I think there were a few misinformed strategies on Moore’s part. When he called Henry Paulson’s office to talk to him about the financial crisis and the American taxpayers’ money, he admirably used his own name, said he wanted to talk to Paulson, and was immediately hung up on. I think he should have used a fake name, perhaps with a fake occupation which would have yielded more results and a possible meeting. Also, when he went up to Goldman Sachs’ NYC headquarters to “get our money back” with a big bag, rather than explaining his intentions to an executive – he probably should have grabbed the bag, put it on the executive’s head, shoved him in the large van he was driving and DROVE.
Then again, that probably would have gotten him arrested.
But if the majority of the film makes you lose faith in most of humanity, the last thirty minutes should help you get some of it back. The sit-ins, the rebellions, and the refusal to “just sit down and shut up” (to quote Sarah Palin) was what truly exemplified democracy in the most turbulent period in American history in many, many years – and it makes us remember how truly wonderful the system of democracy can work, even if it is imperfect. And Moore then makes the fascinating point of FDR’s proposed Second Bill of Rights…which was never implemented. J.D. from “Scrubs” once said “In the end, it’s the what if’s that hurt the most.” And that is true.
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