The Shock Doctrine

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Audience Member I really like Klein's take on neoliberalism and disaster capitalism, and this documentary is a good way to reach people who don't like reading - especially dense books on social theory. It synthesizes well the most important parts of her ideas, making them easily comprehensible to the general public. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Staffan H This isn't a documentary. It has no direction, makes it argument by including a lot of stuff that is beside the point and doesn't seem to contain any original material. It's mostly archival footage and, as someone else already stated, bits of Naomi Klein's lectures. The whole thing is litterally riddeled with irrelevant material that is probably included purely for it's shock value. Perhaps that's the actual schock therapy the movie refers to. I agree with much what is said but there's no hard evidence of anything. It's more a collection of cirumstances, of which many are irrelevant, with exciting narration. Even though Naomi's book is on the to-be-read list, this "documentary" is a very odd experience. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/21 Full Review Audience Member It's always a shame when a documentary with such interesting and worthy subject matter is handled with such a lack of editorial skill. I would certainly recommend it due to the content but it's not great cinema. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member A compelling premise with some great archival footage of some really horrific historical events. The film gives a strong argument against Friedman's free market policies and there are some powerful moments where the facts speak for themselves. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member In this documentary Naomi Klein exposes how extreme free-market policies & corporations have ripped off several nations across the globe using disaster capitalism. The film is thought provoking. I am very interested in a lot of Klein's views. I was also impressed with the fact that she exposes the repressive dictatorship that essentially replaced the democratically elected leader Allende in Chile in 1973. I am well read on the subject & appreciated her candor on it. The CIA & Corporate America were behind the coup. Klein exposes the sad fact in her documentaries that almost everything in life comes down to money. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Very didactic, it relies too heavily on bad news report-style narration over archival footage, and it rushes through the facts so quickly and glibly that it makes the conclusions it comes to about causation sound tenuous and hysterical when they are most likely in actual fact very well-researched and backed up with evidence. I would also liked to have seen more of an emphasis on earlier history, as that's especially rushed through. It's not a very good film, but there are powerful moments when the facts speak for themselves. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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