Friday, October 12, 2007
Disaster Capitalism
Are out there opportunities to produce visual outstanding works supporting a right cause for free? Naomi Klein's latest book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism represents such a right cause indeed!
I just begun to read the book, watched a lot of video interviews with Naomi Klein and read through all the pages of the book's official website:
In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s free market policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.
Naomi Klein's latest book is based on hard fact and probably a lot of historical research was needed before the writing process.
The short film aimed to accompany the book was the result of a collaboration between Naomi Klein, the mexican film director Alfonso Cuarón and his son Jonás Cuarón. Despite the film was first conceived as a promotional tool it now stands on its own because of its polical message strenght.
Everybody can pirate it, download it, give it to their friends, do whatever they want to do. It's not a commercial product in that respect.
Alfonso Cuarón.
Labels: books, economy, films, globalisation, politics
