Poverty Inc. is a 2014 American documentary film directed by talk radio host Gary Null and Valerie Van Cleve. The film is characterized as a history, news documentary. It is unofficially subtitled, "How Washington's Predatory Economic Policies and the New Global Elite Have Ushered America Into Third World Status." This film deals with the economic aspects of American life after the Great Recession of 2008.
The documentary provides interviews with authors, economists, humanitarians, progressive politicians, investigative reporters, consumer advocates, philosophers, academics, journalists, clergymen, as well as "the voices of America's downtrodden" homeless. The filmmakers interview such people as the "Wolf of Wall Street," Jordan Belfort, political activist, Ralph Nader, former US Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich and others.
Video Poverty Inc. (Gary Null film)
Critical reception
The New York Times claimed that Null's movie "...would be a prime candidate for the year's most depressing film." In the same review, they acutely pointed out the thesis of the film and that is:
"The word "government" should no longer be spoken without the word "corporate" as a modifier. New college graduates with six-figure student loan debt must be regarded as indentured servants. Prisoners, put to work for large companies while behind bars, are, for all intents and purposes, slaves. The accumulation of wealth has become a pathology; those who have it want it all. Wall Street should be regarded as a criminal syndicate."
The Hollywood Reporter similarly said, "While the observations [in the film] are often piquant -- one commentator suggests that there should be a class below the poor, to be dubbed "Les Miserables" -- their sheer accumulation proves wearisome. It's a mark of the film's ineffectiveness that even if one agrees with many of the positions espoused it's hard not to wish for opposing viewpoints."
Maps Poverty Inc. (Gary Null film)
References
External links
- Gary Null Films - Poverty Inc. About the Film
- Poverty Inc. at Imdb
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