"Guard Yourself": Anticlimactic

Marques 2022-10-10 04:27:03



Q: I'm very excited to read it!
L: Yes, finally found a possible successor to Mike Moore.

Q: Why is it "possible"?
L: The director is not "shameless" enough. For those liars who refuse to be interviewed, they should be treated like Mike Moore at the end of the film.

Q: For example.
L: Like he did in Capitalism: A Love Story.

Q: Which of the two films do you prefer?
L: Of course it's Mike Moore's, but this movie is one point worse than that one, and I give it nine points.

Q: Where is the difference?
L: End.

Q: No Mike Moore kind of "shocked" ending?
L: That's just a form. The ending was a little weak, and it ended up on the Statue of Liberty. It means that although the United States is like this, those Wall Street crooks have not been brought to justice, but we still have to fight for the American spirit. A bit of an afterword that doesn't match the foreword.

Q: Doesn't this just reflect the helplessness of reality?
L: Having said that, after all, artworks cannot be equal to reality, especially if this kind of "revelation" documentary does not have a strong ending, it will greatly damage the "propaganda effect" of the previous content of the film.

Q: Similar to "Pick it up high and put it down gently"?
L: Kind of like that. How can I say it, for example, when someone kills someone, and you yell at him for his crimes, the person is also speechless and dodged by you, and the onlookers beside them are also indignant and ready to join the group. When hugging, you finished and said, "Comrades, in order to build China or something, we still have to continue to struggle!"

Q: What is a powerful ending?
L: In response to the evasion methods of the swindlers stated above, such as claiming their innocence, such as spending a lot of money to lobby the government to refuse reorganization, we must propose solutions that we created. If there is no censorship and no violation of the constitution, it can incite the riots and demonstrations of the bankrupt people, and it is not difficult to assassinate those Wall Street oligarchs. The moderate ones can refuse to pay taxes, threaten the government not to inject capital into financial companies, and so on. Of course, these are impossible, these things are suitable for direct doing, not suitable for publicity in the form of documentaries. (laughs) The constructive proposal is, first of all, to call on the common people to consume rationally, not to consume ahead of time and to borrow money blindly; secondly, to call on all the direct victims of the financial crisis in the world to sue financial companies, this cannot be done lightly. It's over; in the end, the votes are used to speak, and the congressman is persuaded by the lobbying group of the financial enterprise, so he will remove the congressman, and the president will change the president.

Q: You are very naive. There is no politics in the game of interests. It cannot be called politics. At most, it is just charity.
L: That's the content of another documentary, the name can be called "Despair". (laughs)





Liu Qiang'ai's movie "Steal Yourself" in Episode 113: Anticlimactic

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  • title card: The presidents of Harvard University and Columbia University refused to comment on academic conflicts of interest. - Both declined to be interviewed for this film.

  • interviewer: On your CV the title of this report has been changed from "Financial Stability in Iceland" to "Financial *In*stability in Iceland."

    Frederic Mishkin: Um, well, I don't know. Er, which, er whatever it is, is - the thing - if there's a typo, there's a typo.