Also in review: 'Tio Papi,' 'Il Futuro,' 'Red Obsession'
BY JORDAN HOFFMAN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2013, 9:54 PM
Protesters swarm downtown in ‘99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film.’
RELATED STORIES
- Cabbeen is star China Fashion Week: Beijing ‘catching up’ with fashion capitals but Shanghai has the star factor
- Life in plastic: 45% of all cosmetic surgeries performed on Americans
- Editorials: You gotta love 'em
- Oil prices to no longer be listed in dollars, British newspaper reports
'99%: THE OCCUPY WALL STREET COLLABORATIVE FILM.' 2 stars.
Kaleidoscopic look at 2011’s economic protest (1:37). R: Language. Village East.
Just two years ago, a walk through lower Manhattan meant tiptoeing past protesters from a surprisingly diverse pool of angry citizens. This doc does a good job of rooting out the demonstration’s origins, and showing how the movement sustained itself for so long.
The kitchen-sink approach, culled from numerous video sources, means that some segments are mesmerizing, others not, with talking heads like Matt Taibbi and Naomi Wolf adding structure. While the film does more than its share of meandering, unless you own a fleet of yachts there’s something in here to fire you up. Whether there are also solutions is open to interpretation.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/99-occupy-wall-street-collaborative-film-movie-review-article-1.1447315#ixzz2e4xPmRPhaborative-film-movie-review-article-1.1447315#ixzz2e4wiJRsi
