Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers (2003) Full
Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers is an award winning Swedish documentary film
Why is the lifestyle of consumerism a source of such rage today? How come the privilege of buying goods does not automatically lead to happiness? Why all this emptiness despite our wealth? Erik Gandini's approach through Surplus is to portray this issue from an emotional rather than a factual perspective. Shot in the US, India, China, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Canada and Cuba during three years. Surplus is the result of a complicated editing process by talented music composer/editor/percussionist Johan Söderberg.
George W Bush's famous "shopping-speech" calling for a war against terrorism that deters the nation from the fear of consumption. Castro responding with hymns to the anti-consumerist, advertising-free island of Cuba. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer preaching that the computer will give us peace on earth "bringing people together"
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Comment by truth on June 22, 2013 at 7:40pm
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Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers is an award winning Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor Johan Söderberg.
It looks at the arguments for capitalism and technology, such as greater efficiency, more time and less work, and argues that these are not being fulfilled, and they never will be.
The film is about our world, the modern civilisation that eats more than needed. It's not very much information that is physicly showed, its the pictures in symbios with music that is the real strength in this flick.
The film leans towards anarcho-primitivist ideology and argues for a simple and fulfilling life.
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