Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore is an expert at tugging on viewer's heart strings, and never passes up an opportunity to do so in Capitalism: A Love Story -- even though the docu-tragi-comedy would have been better without so much bathos. Moore's main problem lies where it always does: with him focusing the camera on humanity's tragedies and milking them for all their worth. It is not to his advantage. His strong points have always been his ability to mock modern culture by splicing together hilarious shots of bumbling corporate goons, or satirically reminding us of our (once great) nation's serious decline into the grifter paradise it has now become. Capitalism does all this, but with a mixture of failure and success. This paper will show where Moore fails and where Moore succeeds with his latest attempt to win over the American public...
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