Finally saw M. Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story."

[Atman]

Yeah, yeah...one of the last DUers to see it, not that's it's finally running on "On Demand."

Two things struck me...first, it points out nothing that I and many, many other DUers had been saying for years. Saying about the housing bubble, the phony financial crisis, the whole premise of the film. It didn't take a genius to see it coming -- it couldn't have if even I saw it coming! (Read my old DU journals). Which makes the also-screamed-about media complicity even more aggravating. The very corporations who would benefit from the phony collapse were the same ones who were promoting the story. Win-win for them, lose-lose for everyone else.

Second -- the guy from Peoria, Illinois whose family was forced out of their house and further humiliated by being offered money to clean up their former residence for the bank: WTF, Michael Moore?! Even YOU could have seen the bullshit in the story! For sure, it was a sad saga of a family being put out onto the street. But the couple who could not pay their bills blamed at least part of it on the husband's inability to work due to his long-term disability. Yet he was filmed carrying huge loads of trash, furniture, mattresses, whatever. What the hell was his disability? He fell asleep too much? He ate too much? Dude seemed to be able to carry a freakin' horse, but he was on disability? Obviously I don't know his actual circumstance, because Mr. Moore completely ignored that part of the story. And to that end, he undermined his story and gave ammunition to those who would call such people deadbeats and brush them off with a "good riddance."

I think Michael Moore is a brilliant filmmaker, but even he should have seen the truck-sized holes in the Peoria couple's story. Just a little balance or explanation might have gone a long way. Besides that, though -- the movie is a must-see.

End of review. :hi:

[Taverner]

1. Not all disability affects lifting

Disability is more than wheelchairs and canes

[arcane1]

2. I just re-watched that over the weekend

and wondered the same damned thing. It may have helped to let us know just what was wrong with him... I think they may have mentioned what his job used to be, but I can't recall now.

It was a weird sense of deja-vu watching it again after all that has happened.

[Atman]

8. All they said was that he "worked for the railroad."

:shrug:

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[malaise]

3. My DVD arrived todayso you're not the last.

Will be watching late tonight.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. K&R! I finally saw it a few months ago...

It's a must-see and I've passed it along... :)

[DearAbby]

5. without knowing the man's medical history

you think just because you can't see a disability he deserved to lose his home and then be humiliated in being paid to clean it up for the next occupants?

WTF Happened to DU?

[Atman]

9. Where the hell did I say that? You're correct...WTF?

Jesus, read much into things? I said Moore should have explained it, precisely because of the impression I got, NOT because I thought he "...deserved to lose his home and then be humiliated..."

Come on, don't try to conflate your misunderstanding of what I wrote to something being "wrong" with DU. You just misread the post.

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[RKP5637]

6. I have a friend that is in constant arthritic pain, disabled, but if he must he

will lift something despite the pain. One never knows for sure what someone else is going through unless in their shoes or more info. than we got from the film.

BTW- I thought it was a great film, but I can certainly see your point.

:hi:

[Hissyspit]

7. My housekeeper is just now going on disability and is on chemo.

She has lung cancer.

She could lift lots of stuff, right now, if she had to.

Later on, maybe not so much.