The audacity of what The Yes Men were able to pull off is the saving grace of this film; a documentary that has way too many talking head moments with people on the fringes of the project.
The direction was rather slip-shod, as it appeared that moments of supposed humanity were interspersed into what would have been a
rather tight narrative, and that said moments came across as flat and unnecessary.
Pare this film down to the first meeting with the costume designer, then a brief meeting with the creative team in Paris, before the first expose in Finland, and the focus becomes so much tighter.
I would recommend this film simply for the hilarious, and pointed satire of the WTO (that's world trade organization - and if you don't know what that is, then the film's point is already made, for it is the WTO, in large part, who dicate the policies that created the bank meltdown - that this film was done in 2003 shows how prescient the Yes Men were).
It's amazing to watch how much leeway and credence is given to someone speaking rhetoric out their ass, simply because they have some kind (and in this case totally bogus) of credential.
August 1, 2010
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