GrimPrecise
I'll tell you why so serious
Forumrxes
Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.
Bob
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Vicki S. Nikolaidis
There are so many errors in this documentary it should be categorized as fiction. I am writing this from Greece and the line about Greece and dictatorships is totally misleading. There was for a short period a terrible time when the military junta was in power, but it is important to remember the junta was initiated by Kissinger and supported by the USA. The script is quite muddled because it seems quotes from those appearing in the film have been clipped in order to present the view of the authors. Too much emphasis was on congratulating economists for the prizes they have won rather than offering new analysis on the issues. A range of views was not available in the documentary. The other flaws are too numerous to list. The book has even more.
jim-2320
I am a student of Austrian Economics. I was pleased to see Hayek fairly treated in a documentary, and Keynes ideas mostly discredited. However, one cannot discuss the effects of Keynesian economics and world politics without also discussing central banking. The central bank and it's evil spawn; fiat money is the vehicle for government intervention. Without a central bank in control of money and credit, deficit spending would be strangled in it's cradle. Without deficit spending, the socialists would never prevail. That is why one of the 10 planks of the communist manifesto is the control of all money and credit through a central bank. Again, some interesting history is available in this documentary, but it provides a distorted view of economics. Hayek was right, and Keynes was wrong. This documentary would have you believe that the political class was attracted to Keynes on principled grounds. Hogwash! The attraction is obvious: Money and power. Hayek denied them this, which is why they hated him.
Vishal Agrawal
The overall idea of the documentary is to show how 'market' is evolving globally. Its in 3 parts. 1 part shows the market in the era of communism, depression and socialism. 2 part shows the opening of domestic markets in 70s and 80s and third part shows the cross border exchange of goods, ideas meaning 'globalization'. The over all attitude is very positive and politically neutral. The best part is that all economic changes are shown with political point of views and so they become more meaningful and easy to understand. Highest order economists and politicians are interviewed like Clinton, Thatcher, Hayek etc. Its not a Bible Sermon as I found this documentary a lil harsh on central planning issue. Keynes is compared with Marx and Lenin. They are completely different in their approaches and are very successful politicians/economists. Capitalism isn't working as well and so open market seems to be not the 'real solution' either. I really wonder what people have against Marx. Whatever Marx said is absolutely right. The real solution has to come from communism as Capitalism is losing ground because of the hoarding nature of human beings. We live in groups and community solutions are the real solutions for us. Anyways. It is a brilliant learning experience. Watch it if you wanna learn.
anuragkjain
This movie is a prescribed study material in one of the courses at my b-school. Even though I was aware of general macro and micro-economic principles, I never thought much about the Economy in the political sense. This documentary drives home an important point: Economic policy is slave to politics.I was totally taken aback by the number of examples and the extent of re-creating the scenarios that takes place. The soundtrack is really superb, which helps in no small measure. Inspired by Commanding Heights, I just finished reading Hayek's Road to Serfdom and it was a treat and an eye-opener to the thought-processes more than half a century back!
If you want to understand the world better, this movie comes a 10/10 recommended!
