Capitalism By Michael Moore Essay

For the amount of crime scenes in the film Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore, filmmaker of the 2009 documentary, stirs up the question of who’s taking and who is giving in our law abiding society. The film consists of witnessing families losing their homes due to bank foreclosures, and being taken advantage of - something nobody wants to go through. Corporations are being corrupted by the government. Governments are being run as corporations and they are being infiltrated by former executives. The rich stay rich and the poor get kicked out of their homes and on to the streets. Whether one lives in Canada or the US, everyone is affected by the decisions the Government makes for the people. There is no hiding or escape from the travesty the film explores. So the argument remains, do the people of the world really have control of their own lives, or are we to remain pawns in the government’s game of chess? Love him or hate him Michael Moore successfully exposes controversial events that led to the global financial crisis. Michael Moore captures the audience with facts that one cannot deny. The subject of being manipulated by the government, pulls at the heartstrings of people hearing this for the first time. One begins to get …show more content…
Interviews with the senate insiders and financial experts are informative, and there’s an amusing sequence in which he quizzes a selection of priests and bishops who stated that capitalism is “evil” and was not, in fact, the prefered economic model of our lord. Moore tears into wall street's doormen and security guards, while the company bosses remain in their fortress made of money, nonchalantly unaware of the fat man making a scene on the street far below….but for all his cheap tactics, Moore mounts a persuasive case that something is rotten in the current economic