The inevitable talking heads are broken up by glossy photography, graphics and news footage. While Piketty’s cause and effect have been debated (with some even questioning whether the enormous gap is a bad thing), the most intriguing aspect about the film is the larger story it tells about capitalism, its variants and alternatives.Īs directed by New Zealand filmmaker Justin Pemberton, “Capital” is a sleek tour of economic history over the last 400 years or so. You may not be pining for a deep dive into the economics of it all, but the new documentary “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” is here to do just that in an informative and mostly entertaining way.īased on the controversial 2013 bestseller by French economist Thomas Piketty, the film lays out that tome’s ideas that slow growth and an outsize accumulation of wealth at the top are leading the world back to disparities not seen since before the Industrial Revolution. Income inequality has been a hot topic of late, accelerated, like so many other things, by the coronavirus pandemic.
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