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Capitalism: A Love Story 2009 123movies

Capitalism: A Love Story 2009 123movies

Ask not what your CEO can do for you, but what you can do for your CEOSep. 06, 2009128 Min.
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Watch: Capitalism: A Love Story 2009 123movies, Full Movie Online – Capitalism: A Love Story examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). The film moves from Middle America, to the halls of power in Washington, to the global financial epicenter in Manhattan. With both humor and outrage, the film explores the question: What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism? Families pay the price with their jobs, their homes and their savings. Moore goes into the homes of ordinary people whose lives have been turned upside down; and he goes looking for explanations in Washington, DC and elsewhere. What he finds are the all-too-familiar symptoms of a love affair gone astray: lies, abuse, betrayal…and 14,000 jobs being lost every day. Capitalism: A Love Story also presents what a more hopeful future could look like. Who are we and why do we behave the way that we do?.
Plot: Michael Moore comes home to the issue he’s been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
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Capitalism…YEA!, uh wait a sec…?
Economics. Who in their right mind would try and make a feature length film about that subject? Michael Moore’s previous work that included subjects about guns, General Motors, and George W. Bush, to the audience these were clear points for us to identify with, or in most cases, against.

In his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore attempts demystify what economics and capitalism really mean to the vast majority of Americans. This is no easy feat. I must admit the first quarter of the film had me doubting if he would secede. I am not going to sit by and say that people who took out adjustable rate mortgages and then were foreclosed are not at all to blame. They bear a good share of personal responsibility. But so do the lenders who were drooling to make a profit via the art of deception.

Soon afterwards we are presented with an example of capitalism gone awry. A judge in a US town was locking up juvenile offenders, for “crimes” such as throwing meat or criticizing a vice-principal online. The prison was a privately run corporation that was sending financial kickbacks to the very judge who was locking these kids up on absurd charges. Granted this was just one example, but a shocking one that could make you question just what are American values. This is where the film really started to get interesting. Are capitalism and Christianity compatible? What becomes of capitalism when you strip out regulation? Who actually controls the government of The United States of America, the top 1% or the bottom 95%? When the markets crashed last fall and the banks cried uncle, where was the oversight by our elected officials regarding the bailout funds?

These are questions, and some answers, that make Moore’s documentary effective and engaging. While he is reflecting upon the past he is also asking us, what are we going to do about it in the future?

Review By: pbrownca
Weak arguments and misleading information
Michael Moore’s film Capitalism: A love story is a two-hour critique of capitalism. This is nothing new from Moore, though it’s his first sustained critique of capitalism. Unfortunately, and this is a major problem, Moore doesn’t really have a clear understanding of what capitalism is. The US is a mixed economy. It is a mixture of capitalism and socialism. The government owns and controls parts of the economy to some extent or other. Thus when things go bad economically, it’s not always capitalism’s fault. Moore doesn’t understand this. He doesn’t know what crony capitalism or corporatism are. He talks about the bank bailouts and seems to think this is capitalism. He gives a perfect example of crony capitalism with the Friends of Angelo program at Countrywide. He thinks these are capitalism because they involve private companies. He shows us other private companies where workers get to vote on company policies, or private companies run as co-ops, and seems to think that this is somehow not capitalism.

He waffles on regulation, at times criticizing deregulation, then saying that you just can’t regulate capitalism because it’s evil. His evidence is some theologians that say it’s evil because it doesn’t provide for the needs of everyone. Of course while these theologians are talking to Moore, they’re not providing help to the poor and downtrodden. Does that make them evil? Does the fact that capitalism encourages charitable donations mean anything? They seem to be setting up an arbitrarily high standard for capitalism, which they can’t themselves live up to.

Moore wants to show how things are just getting worse in this country as capitalism further encroaches, but he only has anecdotal examples. The poor in this country live better than the middle class in most countries throughout the world throughout history: they have electricity, clean water, heat, ac, tvs, cell phones, cars, wardrobes of clothing, electronics, computers, internet, and so on. And that’s the poor. The poor used to starve to death (and still do in many countries) now we have an obesity crisis. Everyone’s standard of living continues to improve due to capitalism. Is that evil?

The arguments mostly rely on misleading information and insinuation, rather than any serious exploration of facts. A good example is the case of the airline pilots. He looks at how poorly paid these local commuter pilots are. The reason, of course, is because they’re on the lowest rung of the ladder, flying short, cheap flights. Careercast.com says that the average salary for a pilot in 2010 is $115,000. Those greedy airlines are really squeezing those pilots. This might explain why Moore’s implication that poor wages lead to more poor airline safety is unfounded. At the time of deregulation of the airline industry in the late 70s, the number of airline fatalities peaked. That is, after deregulation, as the number of people flying was increasing rapidly, total fatalities were still decreasing. The most dangerous airline in the country is Comair, which has recorded 3 fatal crashes in 25 years, out of a total of 5.54 million flights. Moore would say those accidents must have been caused by greed leading companies to short on safety. Actually, the four world airlines with the worst safety record are all state owned: Cubana Airlines, China Airlines, Pakistan Airlines and Iranian Airlines. Cubana airlines in fact had 8 fatal accidents in the past 25 years on only 320,000 flights.

Moore also clearly doesn’t understand many of the issues he discusses. For example he talks about derivatives, and claims they’re just sophisticated gambling, though he admits he doesn’t understand them. But there are plenty of people who do understand them, and what they’ll tell you is that derivatives are a way for companies to share risk. The companies let other people buy up some of their risk so that they can reduce their exposure. The investors share potential profits or losses. It’s a system that tends to produce more stability in a market (one need just look at the erratic prices of the onion market, the only agricultural market without futures trading, for a good example). The derivatives can get complicated depending on the nature of what they cover. Could Moore seriously not find an economist who could explain this?

In fact, when he says he wants to end capitalism and replace it with democracy he really shows his ignorance. Capitalism is an economic system and democracy is a political system. It’s possible to have one, the other, either or both. They’re independent. In fact, he brought Stephen Moore on (the only person he brought on with any economics training), who rightly pointed out that democracy has not historically overall led to greater prosperity, improved living conditions or improved human rights. It’s controversial, but there’s evidence to back this up. But capitalism does bring these, consistently and unambiguously. You’d totally expect Michael Moore to try to refute this or even just respond somehow, but he doesn’t. He just moves on to talking about how capitalism is not guaranteed by the constitution (which is inaccurate: capitalism means private ownership, which is protected by the 4th and 5th amendments, not to mention the commerce clause in article I).

By saying he wants to replace capitalism with democracy, he avoids the important question: if capitalism is so bad, what do we replace it with? Every system is imperfect, but what’s the alternative? Should we adopt FDR’s “Second Bill of Rights”? Is that better? Among those rights is the guarantee of a job. The Teacher Unions have effectively won that right by making it almost impossible to fire a public school teacher, but it’s led to declining quality of education. Doesn’t that violate that other right to good education? It’s easy to talk in the abstract about how great something would be, until you actually have to put it in practice.

Review By: quxeot

Other Information:

Original Title Capitalism: A Love Story
Release Date 2009-09-06
Release Year 2009

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 7 min (127 min), 1 hr 45 min (105 min) (Toronto International) (Canada)
Budget 20000000
Revenue 17436509
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Documentary, Crime, History
Director Michael Moore
Writer Michael Moore
Actors Michael Moore, William Black, Jimmy Carter
Country United States
Awards 4 wins & 15 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, USA (prints)
Film Length 3,480 m (Portugal, 35 mm), 3,481 m (Sweden)
Negative Format Digital
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), HDCAM (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical) (Fuji Eterna-CP 3513DI), D-Cinema

Capitalism: A Love Story 2009 123movies
Capitalism: A Love Story 2009 123movies
Capitalism: A Love Story 2009 123movies
Capitalism: A Love Story 2009 123movies
Capitalism: A Love Story 2009 123movies
Capitalism: A Love Story 2009 123movies
Capitalism: A Love Story 2009 123movies
Capitalism: A Love Story 2009 123movies
Original title Capitalism: A Love Story
TMDb Rating 7.135 455 votes

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