Plot
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.
Written by
Naomi Klein
Directed by
Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom
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Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Renegade Pictures
Languages
English
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# of Votes
3,211
Average Rating
7.6 out of 10
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