It all feels like it was put together rather haphazardly but it's hard not to agree with it. Comparing it with torture techniques is only manipulative in that it makes people think the free market is only as bad as torture, when in fact it is much much worse.

I am by no means a supporter of right-wing economics, but comparing it to CIA torture techniques? C'mon!

The film is not very informative, at least not as much as it tries to be. At only 7-minutes runtime it draws an abstract comparison between torture techniques and economic policies, and then follows by giving examples of it. This is very plain and simple really, and yet, it forwards it's point well and the film itself is wonderfully animated with provocative stenciles.

Can't stand the extreme left or extreme right politics. As per usual, the answer lies somewhere in the middle. Just shut the hell up with all the rhetoric. My favorite part = "we too become childlike.." *cut to picture of George Bush talking.* That's really original stuff right there. Look! Bush is a child!! A CHILD! Really subtle metaphor guys!

Many false analogies and false socialistic/communist statements from Klein, but get points for very importantly pointing out how the US government are droven by big companies to create wars and prosper from them.

It is hard to watch this and judge it as a separate entity from the book. This short left a lot of holes that are filled when you read the whole text. I hope that even if this makes a sort of incomplete argument in this form, maybe it will encourage people to examine the ideas more thoroughly by reading the book or doing some research themselves.

Conveys Klein's basic premise clearly enough: that shock-induced trauma disorients minds, and that Milton Friedman sold this idea to governments as the path through which they could introduce neoliberal economic policies. To this should be added an analysis of the way in which a society of "permanent innovation" such as ours persists in a state of continuous "disadjustment" between the technical and other spheres, and that this amounts to a kind of permanent shock that is similarly exploitable.

just another conspiracy theory

Really interesting.

Looks really impressive and does its job of making me want to read Klein's book.

19 Mart 08 with Maki & good idea and good documentry-short movie.I like it, interesting short movie.

Amidst his well earned celebrity career I'm glad Cuaron takes the time to make a propaganda/anti propaganda (whichever way you prefer) short. But the idea is nowhere new or striking, even 1984 is based on communities driven by state of alertness.