Or will audiences sit appreciatively through the movie, then go home and play the cat-in-the-toilet video? The movie is not opera so much as impassioned journalism — a broadside fired at the good ship Free Enterprise, with the hope of altering its course, and dislodging the pirates who have seized it.
SHOOT: Increasingly I am of the opinion that was is needed is nothing short of a revolution. Taking back the law, the government and making business a public service that profits all, not just business.
SHOOT: Increasingly I am of the opinion that was is needed is nothing short of a revolution. Taking back the law, the government and making business a public service that profits all, not just business.
In many ways, though, this is Moore's magnum opus: the grandest statement of his career-long belief that big business is screwing the hard-working little guy while government connives in the atrocity. As he loudly tried to confront General Motors CEO Roger Smith in Roger & Me in 1989, and pleaded through a bull horn to get officials at Guantanamo to give medical treatment to surviving victims of 9/11, so in Capitalism he attempts to make a citizen's arrest of AIG executives, and puts tape around the New York Stock Exchange building, declaring it a crime scene. In an episode that might have come from a Dickens novel, Moore tells of two Pa. judges who shut down a state-run detention center and sentenced children, some for the most minor of infractions, to a facility run by a private company that kicked back millions to the judges. At the end Moore says, "I refuse to live in a country like this — and I'm not leaving."
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