cbagpjszxkpifo This Documentary indeed changed my lifestyle, after watching it I was able to go easier WITHOUT nonstop consuming, brands after brands, the best, the most expansive and so on. I recommend everyone on earth who is living in one of the few rich nations to watch this movie and deeply think about it once in a while, than maybe renewing the input by watching it again after a few years. This Movie is not only about money and consumption, its about the awareness of your own acting and lifestyle. If you carefully analyze western society, you might find out that the greatest accumulating of free choice you can get is between one product or 432 similar products while shopping. Consumption IS the factor which moves our hole society along the day, it drives people crazy and by the way destroys half of the Earth without attracting attention (the other half seems to be reserved for war). ...So - You can also do without it! ... beans rice, rice and beans. beans. beans-rice - rice and beans

R X this is a very brilliantly made documentary. there are more than one narratives going at once, streaming to you in a cleverly cut together fashion, which normally juxtaposes what is being said to what the opposite is.for those who say this film is like a music video rather than a documentary, all i can say is that you don't get it. the fashion and rhythmic style of the editing is not to make it amusing but to hammer and retort on the style of consuming that exists today. that is, to repeatedly go back and back and back and back to the same product and consumer goods to feed feed feed feed our structured likes/wants/needs from advertising from a completely absorbing imperialistic consumer society.with that said, if that made sense to you, you too would enjoy this documentary; it changed the way i looked at life to an extent.go watch this film. now.

peeter-piiri-001 It is very important to understand, that the makers of this documentary does not idealize the alternatives of western consumerism. Vice versa, they show it very clearly that the "alternatives" of such consuming madness are the same - madness. The idea of this documentary is not the communist propaganda. As a matter of fact, it is impossible to show this documentary in Cuba. It is too critical for them too. The idea of this film is to show the hopelessness of the situation, where we live. In documentary Zerzan says, that he does not think that the destroying and burning are solutions, but there are simply nothing more to do. This film declares, that we have no solutions nor alternatives. This is not the propaganda of violence, but the tragic conclusion, that it is more ethical (bu only more) to burn and to destroy, than to consume and to conform from day to day.

wiepske This is without doubt one of the most convincing and impressive documentaries I have ever seen. It is very in-your-face and not subtle, and you might not agree with the message (consumerism is bad), but anyone would have to admit that this film is very, very well made.It's form is highly original. For example, there's a quick montage of the world's leaders (Bush, Blair, Poetin, Chirac etc.), who's voices have been erased, and replaced by a new one, literally 'putting words in their mouths'. Great!And I should mention the editing, which is in accordance with the images and music. The whole film playes like a musical piece, with repeting themes, set-ups and climaxes.For the original form alone, you should see this when you have the chance. Even when you think capitalism is okay.