JOhnson&johnson的后代,Jamie Johnson,面对美国社会贫富分化的现实日益不满,尤其是长辈或富人圈子都有意逃避讨论财富问题,更让他感觉富人圈子的虚伪。 感谢他的身份,富家子弟,因此这个纪录片可以很多人“偷窥”富人圈子的生活场景。他甚至藏着麦克风,跟拍父亲的工作圈子,据说还有他自己与80多岁的经济学家Milton Friedman为政府与市场角色的观点分歧而拍桌对骂。In this hard-hitting but humorous documentary, director Jamie Johnson takes the exploration of wealth that he began in Born Rich one step further. The One Percent, refers to the tiny percentage of Americans who control nearly half the wealth of the U.S. Johnson's thesis is that this wealth in the hands of so few people is a danger to our very way of life. Johnson captures his story through personal interviews with Robert Reich, Adnan Khashoggi, Bill Gates Sr., and Steve Forbes, during which both Johnson's and his subjects' knowledge and humor shine. And he's not afraid to butt heads with Milton Friedman, the economist who coined the term "the trickledown effect." He also shows how the other half lives, using real-world examples of the wealth gap: he takes a tour of a dilapidated housing project in Chicago, rides around with an enlightened taxi driver, and sees the human toll of the unfair economics of the Florida sugar industry. Johnson's film is at its most powerful when it reveals ...