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    but this rant happens early in the film, and the rest of the story shows how the network it aired on figured out how to capitalize on the ratings it generated

    Absolutely, even when I gave the scene a quick watch before posting this, I thought about comments various writers have made about capital’s ability to subsume critique of capitalism. The contract reading scene in the Ecumenical Liberation Army house really pulls it into the forefront.