Capitalism: A Love Story reflection

We've been watching Capitalism: A Love Story in class this week and basically it's Michael Moore's documentary on the evils of capitalism and the detriment it is on American Society. As is typical to his work, it's stuffed with appeals to pathos in the hopes to flood you with empathy so that you accept his point, coupled with appeals to ethos by constantly showing how the every day person, just like you, was affected by whatever it is that he's making a documentary against. He shows the problems of deregulation and the damage that it has done to the american middle and working class.

I have seen this movie a couple of times prior to this, and though I agree with Michael Moore, I'm going to criticize him because it's boring to talk about all the ways in which you agree with someone. I personally find his constant appeal to emotion to be simultaneously his best and worst trait. I cannot watch his documentaries more than a couple of times before I find them annoying to be frank. He uses this recipe for his movies that is like 75% pathos, 15% ethos, and 10% logos. Though this works wonders the first time you watch one of his films, it draws you in and you cannot help but agree with him, after a couple times you begin to view it as sensationalist vacuity. I love what he does, he incites passion in people on issues that probably wouldn't have cared about otherwise, but I actually do care about these issues and I dont really like how light he is on the facts and his disregard to counterarguments. With all that being said, there could have been worse ways to spend the week. At least I wasn't watching a movie from the opposite camp all about the glories of capitalism and lasse-faire economics.