Summary Of The Film Park Avenue: Money, Power, And The American Dream
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The documentary Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream portrays the lives of the ultra rich and how they use their money in political ways to stay, and the lives of the poor located in the South Bronx. This documentary is effective for middle class citizens because of the well rounded people that are displayed, the effective charts that are portrayed throughout, and the strong emotional appeals that are within the film. Park Avenue displays the gap between the rich and the poor by comparing the residents of 740 Park Avenue who are ultra rich to the residents in the south Bronx who are home to America’s poorest discretional group. The documentary continues on to discuss how the rich utilize their money in politics to stay on top of the game as the poor struggle to inherit jobs and even provide food for their families. The documentary was produced to address the social inequality that has developed and…show more content… One man interviewed, Paul Piff, who is a social psychologist ran a monopoly game experiment on teenagers. Piff purposely rigged the game so that one player had more of an advantage at winning. By including Piffs experiment into the documentary it allows middle class viewers to see visually how the player with more money comes across as better than the player with less money. The monopoly game sets as an example to how the real world can be when money is a factor. Another man interviewed named Jack Abramoff who was the former lobbyist and as the director called him “the poster child for political corruption” had spent four years in federal prison for conspiracy to bribe public officials. By having Abramoff speak it is effective for the middle class viewers because they can get a sense on some of the things jack did as a lobbyist and how it affected