Global Warming

I recently watched a film called The Shock Doctrine, which is a movie based on the book The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.  It poses the theory that the government uses times of crisis to pass normally unpopular policies. 

I believe this film used visuals and sound effectively.  The repeated use of the patient being violently shocked serves to show how the government “shocks” the public and then forces policies. 

Another example is of a plane flying into the World Trade Centers on 9/11.  The scene is at first serene, showing the plane peacefully gliding through the air behind a bright blue sky, when all of a sudden it crashes into the building causing a firey explosion.  The audience is shocked.  And on 9/11 the American society was shocked too.  Then we see a clip of George W. Bush and Milton Friedman.  Klein suggests that Iraq war, much like many other wars, and other unpopular policies have been forced on the public in a time of crisis.  By showing these images, Klein emphasizes that these political figures are to blame. 

Towards then end of the film, several wars, coups, and massacres are flashed across the screen in dark red.  With these facts and statisitcs popping up so fast its extremely difficult to keep tract of them all, creating the idea that this form of shocking and then pushing policies has happened too many times. 

I really enjoyed watching this film and thought Klein used images effectively.  I ended up showing this film on youtube to several of my friends and they also found it very interesting.  Be sure to check it out.