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Three Dollars: Writer slams economic rationalism
Film Review:
This film sounds promising. Have you seen The Bank and/or the Corporation? I thought these were terrific films, the type that should be in the "must see" list for all students (secondary and tertiary).
Have you see any of these? Please leave your comment here.
Source: Nine MSN
17:36 AEST Sat Apr 23 2005
"Elliot Perlman isn't your typical revolutionary.
Softly spoken and polite, beneath his charming demeanour Perlman is angry and vocal about a society that has let money get in the way of caring for its citizens.
Words are the weapon of choice for this Melbourne barrister-turned-writer and he is hopeful his message will find a wider audience with the Australian release of the movie Three Dollars, based on his award-winning first novel of the same name."
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"He is disappointed by both sides of politics but his real anger is with Labor, which he says has lost its traditional social conscience."
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"Perlman questions how it can trumpet record low unemployment when 10 per cent of people live in a household where no one has a job.
"How anybody say the country is economically healthy, is beyond me," he says.
"It's time to say that the emperor is not wearing any clothes.
"The fact is economic rationalism doesn't work, it doesn't make the majority of people feel better. It's just that the PR job has been so good."
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Three Dollars opens nationally in cinemas on Thursday April 21.
©AAP 2005"
Continue reading this article: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=48866
This film sounds promising. Have you seen The Bank and/or the Corporation? I thought these were terrific films, the type that should be in the "must see" list for all students (secondary and tertiary).
Have you see any of these? Please leave your comment here.
Source: Nine MSN
17:36 AEST Sat Apr 23 2005
"Elliot Perlman isn't your typical revolutionary.
Softly spoken and polite, beneath his charming demeanour Perlman is angry and vocal about a society that has let money get in the way of caring for its citizens.
Words are the weapon of choice for this Melbourne barrister-turned-writer and he is hopeful his message will find a wider audience with the Australian release of the movie Three Dollars, based on his award-winning first novel of the same name."
(......)
"He is disappointed by both sides of politics but his real anger is with Labor, which he says has lost its traditional social conscience."
(......)
"Perlman questions how it can trumpet record low unemployment when 10 per cent of people live in a household where no one has a job.
"How anybody say the country is economically healthy, is beyond me," he says.
"It's time to say that the emperor is not wearing any clothes.
"The fact is economic rationalism doesn't work, it doesn't make the majority of people feel better. It's just that the PR job has been so good."
(......)
Three Dollars opens nationally in cinemas on Thursday April 21.
©AAP 2005"
Continue reading this article: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=48866
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