2015 · documentary · political · sports
Requiem for the American Dream
Directed by Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott1h 13m2015
Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation. He provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time – the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.
Our read: Requiem for the American Dream (2015) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded documentary · political · sports entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, gentle documentary / political, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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