Capitalism: A love Story

Positive aspect to the movie:
The  director has produced a docu-drama of exceptional quality. His major theme is a critique of an American Capitalism. He uses graphic examples plus humour to illustrate the increasing inequality of wealth among Americans with 1% of the population holding as much wealth as the bottom 95% of the population.
He also shows how the political system is corrupted by monetary contributions to politicians and their parties. Therefore, it is difficult to imagine that any measures to address the economic and social problems will be adopted.
Michael Moore in this connection shows how Roosevelt proposed bill of rights in 1944 which included housing, health care, and education as well as a job for everyone never was implemented. As well, he illustrates that these rights were actually implemented to a greater extent in the countries that the US has defeated in WW II that is Japan, Germany and Italy.
Moore chose his examples with up most care. Thus he gives examples of foreclosures which dramatize the problems that this causes for people at the bottom of the economic ladder.
He offers a few solutions to the dilemma facing such people but he shows at least one case where people move back into their place from which they have been evicted and defy the police. Similarly,  he shows how the situation of a factory in Chicago ends with a small victory for the workers who are able to recover their severance package. His humour is most clearly illustrated when he tries to recover the bailout funds that were given to major Wall Street institutions. He ends up by stringing a yellow tape around one of the headoffice buildings. The tape of course reads, "Crime Scene. Do Not Cross."

In terms of any criticizms of the Moore's film one could mention overly optimistic suggestion that Obama will bring about positive change. As Moore himself notes the biggest contributor to Obama's campaign was Goldman and Sachs. Also Moore underemphasises some extent to which some of the people in his movie were masters of the own fate.

Nevertheless, it is clear that the US now has a significant underclass with Third World standards in terms of access to housing, health and education. The movie makes a convincing case that this situation is largely result of the form of capitalism existing in the US and supported by major segments of the political, financial and industrial elites.