Sunday, October 12, 2014

99%??

Well as the audience to this film I was amazed at how biased it was, but I guess that's a given with any documentary.  Some of the things being said were straight up absurd, and more often than not there were tons of logical fallacies, which had you immersed yourself into the film you would never notice, but looking at it analytically its a very different story than watching it just to watch it.  Though it made strong points that made me want to side with them, their overall views seem absurd as well as illegal...  "The 99%" isn't an accurate representation as the 1% are just outliers in the range of economics which span from those who are actually impoverished and those you are getting along just fine and have more.

The film tried to use emotional appeals to sway the audience, but though they were sometimes effective they went too far in portraying the militaristic police, and the bankers who foreclose on houses.  For me at first it was very effective, but then it quickly become absurd (a word I've used many times already but does describe its use), which made it absolutely impossible to see past the obvious rhetorical strategies employed thus making them ineffective for me.

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