The Shock Doctrine

2009 · 82 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 3,163 VOTES · DIR. Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom

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Overview

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.

Dialogue Timeline — 169 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

01:00:00 each week.
01:04:23 One of the most high-profile contractors
01:04:52 what law governs their actions. I...
01:05:45 hundreds of thousands of Iraqis had died.
01:06:59 and what I saw was that what I had witnessed in Iraq, was repeating
01:07:23 as are the homes of the children who have attended them.
01:07:50 I witnessed a similar process in Sri Lanka
01:08:25 to protect their interest.
01:09:09 "contraction".
01:09:54 I know how much I owe to you.
01:10:29 Between the experiments of Ewen Cameron
01:11:03 and that you had fought so hard, and won?
01:11:39 It is in the nature of unregulated markets, to be volatile.
01:12:19 In one year, 600 billion $ disappeared from the stock markets of Asia.
01:13:02 would share 2.5 billion $ in bonuses.
01:13:33 It is a transfer of wealth from public hands
01:13:52 [Alan Greenspan - Former President of US ferderal reserve]
01:14:25 This crisis is clearly understood, by almost everyone
01:14:54 is that this tactic is getting tired.
01:15:22 fear itself
01:15:48 (and it could be an apocryphal one)
01:16:08 "Now go out there and make me do it".
01:16:42 when so much is at stake.
04:07:04 an average of 20 days.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed169
Dialogue density2.1 lines / min
First line01:00:00
Final line04:07:04

Production Record

DirectorMat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes3,163