{"id":25777,"date":"2013-02-10T13:48:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T21:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=25777"},"modified":"2013-02-11T08:30:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:30:56","slug":"occupy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=25777","title":{"rendered":"occupy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"occupy\"<\/a>Reviewed by Steve Mccomb. Viewed at the Santa Barbara\u00a0Museum\u00a0of Art.<\/p>\n

Occupy the Movie, directed by\u00a0Corey Ogilvie,\u00a0is about the movement of Americans who have been pushed too far by the climate of\u00a0corporate\u00a0greed in our country. Because this documentary is\u00a0filmed in favor of the 99%,\u00a0supporters of\u00a0the occupy movement\u00a0will have a positive reaction toward this film.<\/p>\n

The movie starts out with interviews of people giving their opinion about the\u00a0extreme\u00a0financial\u00a0inequality that \u00a0wall street\u00a0banks created gambling and stealing \u00a0American workers money, hope, dreams, and their very soul. The situation is explained through interviews, graphs, animations, and narration. A government bought and sold to the banks who let them get away with it, and the movement called OCCUPY that began in response.<\/p>\n

Some of the moments that were difficult to watch were the violent ones. There was a part earlier in the film that showed footage of three women being pepper sprayed and a man who’s head was kicked by police officers and there was blood everywhere. It was extremely upsetting.<\/p>\n

The film moves from \u00a0scenes of the Occupy\u00a0demonstrations\u00a0and interviews with people to past events of\u00a0peaceful\u00a0resistance \u00a0that shaped our history. The scenes are shot outside on location, and have a variety of different types of people involved in the movement. The interviews were interesting and informative.<\/p>\n

As with most films on this topic, there was a discussion on the recent history of our tax laws and the deregulation of our banks. The film also focused on the history of civil disobedience and\u00a0peaceful\u00a0protest.<\/p>\n

This film was well done and accomplished the goal of educating the audience on the state of financial\u00a0inequality\u00a0and social injustice in this country and the world. I enjoyed this movie and would encourage others to see it.<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Steve Mccomb. Viewed at the Santa Barbara\u00a0Museum\u00a0of Art. Occupy the Movie, directed by\u00a0Corey Ogilvie,\u00a0is about the movement of Americans who have been pushed too far by the climate of\u00a0corporate\u00a0greed in our country. Because this documentary is\u00a0filmed in favor of the 99%,\u00a0supporters of\u00a0the occupy movement\u00a0will have a positive reaction toward this film. The movie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}