The Shock Doctrine

The Shock Doctrine

2007
Documentary, Animation
Short Film
6m
Drawing surprising connections between market methods and CIA torture techniques developed in the 1950s, the film explores how well-known events of the recent past have been theaters for the shock doctrine, from Pinochet's coup in Chile, to the Tiananmen Square Massacre, to the war in Iraq today. (imdb)
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The Shock Doctrine

2007
Documentary, Animation
Short Film
6m
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Avg Percentile 54.45% from 78 total ratings

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Rated 18 Jul 2009
30
9th
I am by no means a supporter of right-wing economics, but comparing it to CIA torture techniques? C'mon!
Rated 01 Dec 2008
60
65th
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.
Rated 19 Mar 2008
80
64th
19 Mart 08 with Maki & good idea and good documentry-short movie.I like it, interesting short movie.
Rated 26 Feb 2009
85
88th
Really interesting.
Rated 23 Feb 2008
3
61st
Looks really impressive and does its job of making me want to read Klein's book.
Rated 18 Dec 2011
75
63rd
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.
Rated 01 Aug 2009
0
4th
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!
Rated 18 Jan 2012
60
62nd
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.
Rated 09 Mar 2010
5
56th
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.
Rated 18 Nov 2013
4
91st
That financial precarity and anxiety increase suggestibility isn't a new discovery (even the buzz from caffeine 'll do it). Being in the choir I quite enjoyed it but can't imagine it changing anybody's mind.
Rated 26 Dec 2010
0
1st
just another conspiracy theory
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.

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