This montage of a caricature with 'real' footage reminds me of Benjamin's concept of the phantasmagoria. The caricature speaks to the dream space of "unlimited" capitalism that promises to provide goods and wealth to each and everyone. This false promise is deconstructed by the actual footage of the collapse, which, as micro-case, fissures the larger construct of capitalism, and reveals the proximity of consumer culture and barbarism, in a similar logic as Benjamin's dialectical image at standstill, that tries to graps the bigger historical picture out of a single image of a catastrophic event.
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