Requiem for the American DreamPeter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott

Living legend Noam Chomsky describes the end of "The American Dream": the ideal that everyone, regardless of their background, has the opportunity to one day belong to the rich happy few.

Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary thinkers. In a final series of interviews - recorded over a period of four years - he dissects contemporary capitalist society.

He goes back to the founding of the United States, when the foundations were laid, and reveals how, especially in recent decades, everything has become focused on the rich becoming richer. How did we arrive at this juncture in history where there is a historically unprecedented gap between rich and poor? He offers a clear explanation of why the middle class is disappearing and how democracy is dying out at the expense of a handful of powerful players. Chomsky claims that it is increasingly an illusion to think that you can detach yourself from the class you were born in and that everyone, whatever their background, can belong to the rich happy few.

Profound, but clarifying interviews are interspersed with historically relevant images and insightful animation. 'Requiem for the American Dream’ is an understandable and convincing exposition of Chomsky's vision on society and a must-see for anyone who is interested in the dangerous pitfalls of democracy in a capitalist society.

 

The screening on the first of May will be followed by the  DOCVILLE+ Session "Is het verdwijnen van de middenklasse in gevaar?". Entrance to this debate is free of chrage.
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Economy


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Vertoond op editie(s) 2016
Screened at edition(s) 2016

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Directed by Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott
VS
73 min.
Engels
Subtitles: English

Programme

ConScience

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Director

Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott

Producer

Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott

Production company

Naked City Films

Cinematography

Rob Featherstone, Michael McSweeney

Editing

Alan Canant

Music

Malcolm Francis

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