An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.
The Shock Doctrine (2009) Online
- Original Title :
- The Shock Doctrine
- Genre :
- Movie / Documentary
- Year :
- 2009
- Directror :
- Mat Whitecross,Michael Winterbottom
- Cast :
- Ewen Cameron,Janine Huard,Naomi Klein
- Writer :
- Naomi Klein
- Type :
- Movie
- Time :
- 1h 19min
- Rating :
- 7.7/10
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.
Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Ewen Cameron | - | Himself (archive footage) (as Dr. Ewen Cameron) | |
Janine Huard | - | Herself | |
Naomi Klein | - | Herself | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | - | Himself (archive footage) (as Franklin Delano Roosevelt) | |
Milton Friedman | - | Himself | |
Salvador Allende | - | Himself (archive footage) | |
Donald O. Hebb | - | Himself - Doctor (as Donald Hebb) | |
Richard Nixon | - | Himself (archive footage) | |
Edward Korry | - | Himself - Former US Ambassador to Chile | |
Augusto Pinochet | - | Himself (archive footage) | |
Margaret Thatcher | - | Herself (archive footage) | |
Orlando Letelier | - | Himself (archive footage) | |
Michael Townley | - | Himself | |
Arnold Harberger | - | Himself | |
Jorge Rafael Videla | - | Himself (archive footage) (as Jorge Videla) |
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