Michael Winterbottom's new documentary The Shock Doctrine does exactly what it says on the tin - galloping through Naomi Klein's influential book in 75 minutes is quite a feat.
Klein's basic idea that crises provide the opportunity to introduce economic policies that would otherwise be unpopular is well documented through the usual suspects: Milton Friedman, Pinochet's Chile, Thatcher, Reagan, Yeltsin's Russia through to cut throat capitalism's current crisis.
An important film if you want to know why the world is in such a mess...
Thursday 24 September 2009
Winterbottom's The Shock Doctrine: Slashing Through Cut Throat Capitalism
More from Borderlines Director, David Gillam, at the San Sebastian Film Festival:
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