The Shock Doctrine (2009)
Mature themes and violence
| Directors: | Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross |
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Based on the best-selling book by Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine tells the gripping story of how America's free-market policies have come to dominate the world through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. it explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed on the wings of democracy.
The film argues that governments the world over exploit natural disasters, economic crises and wars to push through radical free market politics - a practice that Klein calls disaster capitalism. The result is often catastrophic for ordinary people and hugely beneficial to big corporations. Political leaders have turned to brutality and repression in order to crush protest against their agendas of privitisation, deregulation and tax cuts.
Combining archival images, footage from Klein's lectures and interviews with Klein as well as other experts, The Shock Doctrine will change the way you look at our world history.
| Status: | LongWait |
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| Run time: | 79mins |
| Origin: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Aspect Ratio: | 16:9 |
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Ron
says
A very revealing look at the world, especially the countries the US has invaded, manipulated or totally stage-managed to protect & promote its' commercial & ideological interests. Not a hard doco to follow, & it will leave you gobsmacked. And maybe a little bit angry.
gjmcn
says
If you want to Understand what is going on in the World and the Australian economy at this moment then this movie IS a good place to start. The Chicago Guys are ruling the perceptions of most Treasurers and they are loving the notions set forward by Hayek an Milton Friedman. Swan is by delivering an "Austere" budget seeks to create the crisis necessary to initiate far right government policy in Friedman's world its called "crisis".
Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”
? Milton Friedman
The newer Chicago boys poppimng up in guest editorials and on the TV now use "Nudge" and "living beyond our means" when they want to do the same thing.