The Shock Doctrine
The Shock Doctrine

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Naomi Klein gives a lecture tracing the confluence of ideas about modifying behavior using shock therapy and other sensory deprivation and modifying national economics using the "shock treatment" of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School. She moves chronologically: Pinochet's Chile, Argentina and its junta, Yeltsin's Russia, Bush and Bremer's Iraq. A trumped-up villain provides distraction or rationalization: Marxism, the Falklands, nuclear weapons, terrorists; and, always, t... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Shock Doctrine:

Kieran O'Brien
Naomi Klein
Milton Friedman
John Major
Bill Clinton
Henry Kissinger

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Naomi Klein gives a lecture tracing the confluence of ideas about modifying behavior using shock therapy and other sensory deprivation and modifying national economics using the "shock treatment" of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School. She moves chronologically: Pinochet's Chile, Argentina and its junta, Yeltsin's Russia, Bush and Bremer's Iraq. A trumped-up villain provides distraction or rationalization: Marxism, the Falklands, nuclear weapons, terrorists; and, always, there is a great shift of money and power from the many to the few. News footage, a narrator, and talking heads back up Klein's analysis. She concludes on a note of hope.

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Hollywood Reporter - 9/10 by Kirk HoneycuttThis movie, clearly assembled in haste, throws surprisingly poor archival footage into the mix with a Klein lecture, scant original interviews and a narration from on high that will brook no dissent.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 9/10 by Dennis SchwartzIn a lucid way clears up how America is now in the midst of a severe financial crisis through questionable free market policies.
The National (UAE) - 8/10 by Kaleem AftabIt's really the bluffer's guide to Klein, useful for those looking for an introduction to the concepts but not much else.
rec.arts.movies.reviews - 6/10 by Louis ProyectA movie that describes the scorched earth policy associated with free market fundamentalism, continuing with the current occupant of the White House.
Cinematical - 4/10 by Christopher CampbellThe worst that comes out of the documentary's final moments is the sense that Winterbottom and Whitecross ultimately don't know what their film is supposed to be about.
Filmcritic.com - 4/10 by Christopher Nullit's pretty clear even without further knowledge that tying every single ill in the modern world to Friedman's free market policies is being far too narrow minded
User Review - 10/10 by Kain LAmazingly important. A must see for anyone who's thinking about the world we're living in and the current political and economic state.
User Review - 10/10 by Stephen CMilton Freidman was a man who in life was given the noble peace prize ,after you see this doc ,you wonder why he wasnt taken out and shot for bringing in shock capitalism and ruining the lives of millions of people around the globe. The so called Chicago boys were allowed to carry out thier fiscal experiments first on Latin American dictatorships causing millons to disapearand others to fall into crushing poverty. When Thatcher and Reagan picked up the doctrine they caused hundreds to lose jobs and create a new super rich while widening the poverty gap Naomi Kein shows how all these factors are now in play in the world today and how following the events of 2008 a major backlash is in place. The film opens your eyes to this terrible way of doing business and presses home how the people can change things. A vital piece of documentary cinema
User Review - 8/10 by Zach LHeavy-handed? Yes. But essential viewing all the same. Michael Winterbottom, you're a dude!
User Review - 8/10 by Andrew BFood for thought...a thorough examination of the Scorched Earth Policy that is unbridled unrestricted, unmonitored free market capitalism unrestrained from any type of public policy or social conscience

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