At the beginning of the film, the picture presented to everyone is a group of bank robbers. In fact, this is Mike Moore's most important artistic technique in this "Capitalism: A Love Story", through specific visual things, to express the plundering of wealth by capitalists and the capitalist's impact on capital in the crisis of capitalism. The irony of the system. The gangster in the opening chapter is Mike Moore's analogy to the capitalists and their control of Wall Street banks. The difference is that the gangsters in the film are blatantly robbing in broad daylight. And Wall Street bankers and financial executives, through a series of complex financial derivatives, the wealth of the non-banking field, especially the wealth of the general public, has been continuously taken into their arms.
Next, Mike Moore compared the United States to the Roman Empire. In the context set by Mike Moore, the United States is another Roman Empire. The Roman Empire held chariot races every year in order to keep idle people from causing trouble. In modern times, all kinds of games also fill the screen. There are racing cars that are similar to chariot racing, and even fighting competitions are similar to the deadly gladiatorial fights of Roman times. Through this series of comparisons, Mike Moore wants to tell us that the United States is not fundamentally different from the ancient Roman Empire. If we continue to think along this line of thought, we will inevitably come to the same conclusion as the fate of the United States and the Roman Empire.
Mike Moore compares capitalism to a love story, but from what he's showing, I'm absolutely sure this love looks beautiful. Indeed, after hundreds of years of development of capitalism, especially after World War II, capitalist countries have paid attention to improving the welfare of workers, making the capitalist society prosperous. But prosperity can't cover up the ugliness behind it, just as beautiful words can't beautify an ugly heart. The Wal-Mart supermarket group uses its employees to make profits for itself, which is the best embodiment of capital's bloodthirsty. Enterprises lay off employees on a large scale, regardless of the various risks that employees will face after their careers. Such betrayals abound in the love story of capitalism, and the bigger the company, the more ruthless the betrayal becomes. Just think, in the long run, who can believe in the love myth of capitalism?
The eachother in love tells the people they like to listen to, but after they really live a life of chai, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, those eachother can't cook or drink it as tea. Its only advantage is to let you bow down in front of love convincingly, lose your mind, and listen to love's mercy. The slogan of capitalism so illusory is its religion. Through religious teachings, Americans are made to believe that the capitalist economic system is consistent with the Bible, and that capitalists are the incarnation of God on earth. Ironically, when people came to God with the terminally ill and poor, God showed indifference. Even if the capitalists talk about it with hype, if they really want them to show a bodhisattva heart and care about the sufferings of the people at the bottom, it is tantamount to fooling around in a dream.
Love is beautiful and worthy of praise. But Mike Moore went the opposite way. He combined the most beautiful emotion in the world, love, with the capitalist system, which can be said to be the ugliest and sinful in the world. Using the camera to present a real vision of a superpower deep in the crisis of capitalism, and trying to tell us the deep-seated "original sin" of capitalism through these visions.
Mike Moore is not the first, and will never be the last, to lash out and ridicule this beautiful looking love.
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