Let’s Make Money purports to follow the savings of an average depositor as they travel through the global economy,shop for tiffany bracelets, and to lay out the terrible injustices they pay for,tiffany sets, particularly in poor countries, in order to grow. While Mr Wagenhofer loses this thread,discount tiffany earrings, he winds up with an engaging travelogue that ricochets back and forth between the developing world and Europe. There are vivid and moving shots of the poor of the global south: men mining gold with explosives in Ghana; children sleeping on streets in Chennai; and, most alarmingly, men and women picking, packing and weighing cotton in Burkina Faso. The cotton monoculture that global demand imposed on Burkina Faso has turned the place into a desert. Life expectancy is 42 years, and 62 per cent of the population earns less than a dollar a day.

Within a few minutes we have a good idea of Mr Wagenhofer’s technique of persuasion (or, if you like, propaganda). Africans and Asians appear in this film only to suffer; the growing middle classes of India are not visible even peripherally. Other Bric countries are ignored. The Europeans (buttressed by a few experts from poor countries) are there to explicate, and are set up as good guys and bad guys. After Mr Wagenhofer’s arresting scenes of developing world penury, globalisation’s detractors look selfless and prophetic, while its defenders look gullible or predatory.

For example, when Mark Mobius, long-time president of the Templeton Emerging Markets Fund, says: "Globalisation has a very bad connotation but actually globalisation has been very good for all countries around the world," this commonsensical view looks like an outlandish imposture. (It did not help Mr Mobius that he allowed himself to be filmed in gaudy candy-striped shirts and doing awkward exercises in his gym.) Conversely, anyone with an axe to grind against the global economy looks like a seer willing to speak truth to power, no matter how outlandish his assertions. The author John Perkins, who describes himself as a "former economic hit man", appears to believe that the US invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein sought to sell oil in currency other than dollars.

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Films, of course, are a bad place for making arguments. If, as the old saying goes, "writing about music is like dancing about architecture", then making films about economics is stranger still. Documentaries take ideas or arguments – which can be good or bad, but never, ever complex – and emotionalise them. The documentary is the perfect medium for disguising the weakness of weak ideas, and that is why so few documentaries have lasting resonance. It is hard to imagine that anyone outside a university course in social history, for example, would think it worthwhile to watch a Michael Moore film 20 years from now.

But that is where Mr Wagenhofer’s film vaults free of the constraints of his genre. Let’s Make Money is not a serious alternative economic argument. It is nonetheless a film of overwhelming power. It resembles an art film such as Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Godfrey Reggio’s haunting,tiffany bangles sale, wordless indictment of the frenzy of modern life, far more than Mr Moore’s political rants. Mr Wagenhofer has a perfect sense of pictorial composition and, more uncannily, for sound: the keening of seagulls in Chennai as people sleep on the beaches below, the rattling of brittle cotton bushes as people pick in Africa, the xylophonic tinkle of rocks being broken into gravel with small hammers (for 50 cents a day), and even the silence of an African migrant worker making himself a mayonnaise sandwich before sunrise in the wretched apartment where he lives in the Costa del Sol. What film can do as well as any essay is to convey indefinable foreboding, the feeling that something is somehow wrong. Mr Wagenhofer was right to have this feeling. He cannot claim to have predicted the financial crisis in his beautiful film. But not many others can claim that, either.

The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard

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That could be especially true on this Valentine’s Day gift, the first to fall on a Saturday since 2004. And the first since the economy tanked in the fall.

Local restaurant owners said they expect to see more people tonight than they’ve seen in a while.

Shoemakers restaurant in downtown Lynchburg has been booked solid for more than a week. Manager Lucy Smith said the steakhouse has 215 reservations, with 20 couples on a wait-list. That’s the biggest turnout since the grand opening more than 18 months ago, she said.

“We’re thrilled that we still have the enthusiasm coming in the front door,” Smith said. The reservations include “so many first-time diners coming that we know of. That means there’s a lot of people out there that haven’t experienced Shoemakers.”

Most other restaurants in the Lynchburg area do not take reservations. However, they’ve been getting plenty of calls asking for reservations for tonight.

“Valentine’s Day is our best day in the month of February,” said Jeffrey Eames, a manager at Neighbors Place in Wyndhurst. “Valentine’s Day is definitely a booster.”

Harry Leist, owner of Olde Liberty Station in Bedford, said Valentine’s Day is earrings one of the three best days of the year.

While they expect tonight to provide more business than has been seen in recent weeks, local restaurateurs said it’s because January is usually slow. Overall, a weakened national economy and an uptick in unemployment in the Lynchburg area hasn’t curbed their business.

Data on local meals tax collection illustrates that people have continued eating out. Amherst County Administrator Rodney Taylor said the county is surpass-ing its expectations for meals tax collections this fiscal year. Late in 2008, meals tax receipts in Lynchburg were higher than in the year before.

Meals tax receipts have dropped about 2 percent in Bedford County since July, said Faye Eubank, commissioner of revenue.

Michele Digiovanni, owner of La Villa on Timberlake Road, said Lynchburg is a steady market where people still have money to spend eating out.

A restaurant he owns in Martinsville has been hit harder by economic woes, Digiovanni said. Martinsville’s unemployment rate is higher than 10 percent. Lynchburg’s unemployment rate in December was 5.3 percent.

Digiovanni said that he ex-pects to do good business this weekend.

Rob Campbell, a waiter at The Briar Patch in Amherst, said the restaurant has been just as busy in recent weeks as it was before the end of the year.

He said Valentine’s Day is an important business day there. The restaurant is rolling out New York strip steak, which it usually does not serve, as well as some off-menu desserts.

At Shoemakers, Smith said having Valentine’s Day on a Sat-urday key rings is a good thing and should help bring more people out.

At Olde Liberty Station, Leist had a different take: If the third biggest day of the year falls on a weekday, “you have two Saturdays that week” to pull in $5,000.

Having the day on the weekend means that couples have to compete with the usual Saturday crowd and the business won’t increase quite as much.

“We love for these holidays to be Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays,” he said.