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Capitalism: A Love Story
4 out of 5
Capitalism: A Love Story is Michael Moore's take on the market crash of 2008, but it's so much more. Like many of Michael Moore's films, Capitalism: A Love Story works in the usual Moore model: a personal story filled with tragedy, insider interviews, statistics and finally with Moore hitting the streets. This is Moore's broadest film, touching on subjects raised in his other documentaries, such as when he asked Wal-Mart to stop selling bullets in Bowling for Columbine. Moore focuses on profits of industries and how they're made and the people they hurt, but the film lacks the personal touch that his other films delivered. Perhaps this is intentional; Moore seems content to set up the camera and let the story do its own telling rather than taking part and trying to make a difference as he's done int he past, like when he took sick people to Cuba for medical treatment in Sicko. Like Capitalism itself, the film is broad and reaching into a plethora of micro-subjects; the film works almost like a newspaper with a series of articles that are all linked by a central theme in a way that is much more scattered than any of Moore's films before. Moore also talks more than ever about his own life and his family; this self introspective look and the film's closing leads us to believe that Moore is getting tired of rallying the masses for an hour and half and then seeing them do nothing. Maybe this was his swan song - if it was, it's his best tune yet.