Should you watch Requiem for the American Dream?
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Requiem for the American Dream
Documentary · 2015
Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation. He provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time – the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.
The sides of Requiem for the American Dream
- Noam Chomsky in long interviews
- Ten principles of wealth and power
- The decline of the American middle class
Requiem for the American Dream is good for you if…
- you want to understand how money shapes American politics.
- you like Chomsky looking back on decades of activism.
- you like a dense argument told plainly in seventy-three minutes.
Requiem for the American Dream is bad for you if…
- you need some hope when a film looks at democracy.
- you want images, not one man talking.
About: inequality · democracy · wealth
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