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REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM Send This Review to a Friend
Take it from Noam Chomsky, professor, social critic and writer. America is in a bad way. His diagnosis, made clear in the documentary produced and directed by Peter Hutchinson, Kelly Nyks and Jared P. Scott, is that the increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a few has resulted in shattering the potential for the rest of the population. He sees virtually every part of the nation’s structure affected and the democratic American dream undermined.
Where have we heard that before? Tune in to the current political debates.
The film concentrates on conversations with the very effective Chomsky, who speaks with clarity and is devastatingly convincing as he breaks down his analysis into different, carefully constructed categories.
Basically, the film becomes a lecture, but it is illustrated with clips pertaining to Chomsky’s perceptions, and that enlivens the result somewhat. But “Requiem for the American Dream" gives the audience an opportunity to get to know the left-oriented Chomsky via what he has to say about society, as if we were sitting in a classroom with him and being able to weigh the findings that he communicates. This makes for a most interesting, informative and disturbing film. A PF Pictures Productions release. Reviewed January 29, 2016.
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