Push

Important reporting on the post-modern global capitalist economics where housing, one of the basic human rights, has become a commodity and a tool of exploitation by large financial firms and companies. The film describes the same situation in different locations around the world and does a great job in explaining the phenomena in a generally understandable manner.

And no, the film is not against private ownership of housing, many of the people who have lost their homes in the film owned their apartments or homes. It's about the growing inequality of wealth and a system that fails to protect those most vunerable.

As an European I can clearly see how many Americans will see this as communist, marxist propaganda. The thing is they really need to broaden their view on the world, visit other cultures in more than 2 hours, stay for a freaking week instead of switching holiday locations like it was TV channels. Learn the people in the other cultures. Then maybe then they can understand what this is all about, a shame really cause its a spot on documentary on one of the worlds biggest problems. Our planet can not withstand Capitalism. The resources ARE finite, whereas the growth models in Capitalism works like the resources are infinite.

The film adresses an important global challenge. However, it lacks a thorough analysis and contains some misinterpretation of basic economics (e.g. comparing total building asset value, which has been built up over decades, with GDP, which is an annual flow). It would have greatly benefitted from some interviews with real estate experts rather than the leftwing activists. This problem deserves a more factual and analytically sound documentary.

Was super interested in the Topic but the documentary was so slow and lacking context / explanations. Wish it was better!

Seeing as the only other review here at this time is ludicrous corporate doubletalk, I feel compelled to contribute my own view on this documentary, instead of going for a straw man, and comment on the big issue:

The interests of renters and of investment capitalists are diametrically opposed. By going to the roots of the problem and interviewing some people directly affected by this conflict of interests, as well as showing initiatives being taken to rectify it, this documentary manages to both cause outrage and give hope - something many documentaries on social issues fail at because they only present the problem, leaving the viewer hopeless. This film ends on a hopeful note but makes it quite clear that there is still a lot of change needed.

The only thing I missed was an opportunity for the other side to state its case (aside from a few short clips of Milton Friedman being his usual repulsive, sociopathic self) - but then again, the only corporate representative declined an interview. A little more persistence would have been helpful here.