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Article: 'Capitalism': A tall story; Moore's film depicts one side to foreclosures, bank bailouts.(SHOW)(MOVIES)(Movie review)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2009
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Byline: Sonny Bunch, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Michael Moore's new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, chronicles the galling excesses of our modern economy in brutal detail, jumping from home foreclosures to businesses cashing in on life insurance policies they had taken out on their dead employees to bank bailouts to million-dollar-bonuses paid out to executives of failed banks. As he comes to a crashing, triumphant crescendo, the merry prankster of modern moviemaking says he wants to get rid of capitalism and replace it with a better, fairer, more just system - democracy!
Democracy?
It's a head scratcher. One doesn't replace an economic system with a ...