I've seen The Corporation, Manufacturing Consent and Micheal Moore's films. Any others you recommend? I have a lot of time to kill.

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  • WhatAnOddUsername [any]
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    4 years ago

    Have you seen the films by The Yes Men? There are three documentaries which I find very entertaining. Their whole gimmick was that they posed as neoliberal academics and corporate shills and got themselves invited to real news shows and conferences where they could present their over-the-top satires of neoliberal ideas. For example, in one of their "pranks", they go to a conference and present their proposal to create tardigrade-shaped survival suits for rich people to survive an ecological catastrophe.

    The second one, The Yes Men Fix the World, is available on YouTube. Which is lucky, because it's my favourite of the three.

    I know Chapos are skeptical of symbolic actions, and you could argue that the things The Yes Men did weren't especially useful, but at least their symbolic gestures include some substantive criticism of capitalism, and I think the movies are entertaining either way.