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From: MItch
Category: Films
Date: 24 August 2005
http://www.ingoodcompanymovie.com/
Anodyne entertainment capturing an economic moment. Showing paternal old skool American capitalism threatened by rapacious pretentious globalised multi-nationalistic capitalism. For those not in the protectionist racket it is difficult to see what the actual difference between the two forms, in appearance though the film makes it easy: new capitalism is a schmuck in an expensive suit on a treadmill, old is a family man salesman with his sleeves rolled up. The new stuff involves young guys talking about synergy and mobile phones, the old one is two old white guys buddying around and not bullshitting.
Anyway it's a period piece, like those films in the eighties (rising sun et al) about the Japanese taking over the American economy, I'm sure in a few years we won't know what all the fuss was about, the west will be basking in the cancerous sunlight of spectacular prosperity, and the rest will still thnakfully languish in unbearable pain and poverty.
Topher, Dennis, and Scarlett make this nice to watch.
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