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The Shock Doctrine

The Shock Doctrine

2009
Documentary
1h 19m
An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance. (imdb)
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The Shock Doctrine

2009
Documentary
1h 19m
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Rated 27 Mar 2010
60
71st
The main problem with this documentary is its lack of detail: much requires prior knowledge of the events depicted but then fails to add to this satisfyingly. As such it comes across as just being an 80-minute advert for Naomi Klein's book. Certainly intriguing but some of the theories definitely raise an eyebrow, the links between them precarious at best. Like all docs, would've benefitted most from an unbiased viewpoint, rather than the heavily slanted (anti-capitalist) one it takes.
Rated 21 Jul 2013
65
62nd
Quite nice documentary about the manipulation and numbness modern society puts in individuals, but I think the perspective is a bit narrow and sometimes too conspiratory, if you mix it with something from Adam Curtis you could understand the bigger picture.
Rated 19 Sep 2011
50
35th
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.
Rated 26 Jul 2011
50
2nd
One of the worst documentarie movies I've ever seen. The information provided is very interesting, but the point the directors/ writer wants to make is very much unclear. It's anti-capitalist and fails to explain why so called 'badguys' whos methods dont work or even have a negative effect, remain powerful players and influences throughout the rest of their lives. The problem is they had all the right information but they failed to make it credible and to simplify it for the general public.
Rated 22 Mar 2011
75
53rd
ist. film fest & yer yer sikici.
Rated 21 Jan 2014
60
20th
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. It's not a very good film, but there are powerful moments when the facts speak for themselves.
Rated 06 Dec 2014
0
15th
I did not get into this one.
Rated 25 Mar 2020
56
49th
An important subject but the documentary is very flawed. Lacks depth.
Rated 04 Oct 2022
80
73rd
It happened in Turkiye 80-90's.. and it will happen in Ukraine too..

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