New On DVD - Maxed Out, Alone With Her, Stand Up, Nobody Wants Your Film
MAXED OUT [NR]
Maybe Tyler Durden was on to something. In the 1999 counter-cult hit Fight Club, novelist Chuck Palahniuk’s badass anarchist, played by Brad Pitt, initiated the nationwide destruction of the databanks of all the major credit card companies in order to free America from its consumerist overlords. Without advocating such extreme measures, first-time director James D. Scurlock makes a case for revolution by exposing lender practices akin to usury and the U.S. government’s enabling of it, the irony, of course, being that the U.S. government is the biggest credit abuser of us all. Scurlock, not to be confused with Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock, digs quite deep, tapping attorneys, debt retrieval specialists and most importantly, the so-called victims of easy credit. First-timer Scurlock does overreach occasionally, comparing borrowers and lenders to slaves and masters (and the lenders’ aggressive practices to rape). He also spotlights three suicides, implying that […]
Original post by Robert Newton
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