Harry Potter and the New World Order?
One of the most versatile and artistic directors working today with movies as diverse as Children of Men
Klein, an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author is also a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia.
“When I finished The Shock Doctrine,” she says, “I sent it to Alfonso Cuarón because I adore his films and felt that the future he created for Children of Men was very close to the present I was seeing in disaster zones. I was hoping he would send me a quote for the book jacket and instead he pulled together this amazing team of artists — including Jonás Cuarón who directed and edited — to make The Shock Doctrine short film. It was one of those blessed projects where everything felt fated.”
Now, in a reversal of the old cliche “You read the book, now see the movie,” the film is being used to promote the book
In an interview with Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, Klein decsribes the Shock Doctrine as a philosophy that holds that the best way, the best time, to push through radical free-market ideas is in the aftermath of a major shock.
She writes: “The history of the contemporary free market was written in shocks.” She argues that “Some of the most infamous human rights violations of the past thirty-five years, which have tended to be viewed as sadistic acts carried out by anti-democratic regimes, were in fact either committed with the deliberate intent of terrorizing the public or actively harnessed to prepare the ground for the introduction of radical free-market reforms.”
You can watch the entire film at the Shock Doctrine web site.
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