The movie
Tone and style
Killing Capitalism will be a slick, gritty film with fast cuts and snappy dialogue. It will appeal to age 25+ audience members both domestically and internationally. With its larger-than-life depiction of the contemporary political landscape and the film’s extreme solutions to seemingly insurmountable real-world problems, Killing Capitalism will be a hit with anybody who likes a good old-fashioned revenge fantasy.
With a cast dominated by females, the film will appeal to women who enjoy strong female leads, although the high body count and sporadic violence should satisfy any male audience that enjoys action.
Story
Equality Comes at a Price
Francis, a coal miner, has just been made redundant. With no money and no prospects, she goes to the library, one of the few free activities remaining, where she reads about wealth inequality and rages at the unfairness of her situation. When the library is turned into a bookstore/cafe, Francis stages a one-woman protest, which escalates into a full-scale riot.
Meanwhile, Jane, a professor at a prestigious university, is exasperated by the fact that her rich students are unable to grasp her theory of Reverse Societal Engineering, designed to eliminate inequality. When she sees Francis’s riot on TV, she immediately seeks her out, in order to try to bring her message to those who need it.
Jane, Francis, and her redundant coal miner friends form a new political party, which becomes the main contender in the upcoming presidential election. One of her rivals is a a smug wealthy hippie called Dave, who promotes non-violent reform through cooperation with all parties. A few days before the election, Francis is shot in an assassination attempt. This attack, however, secures her popularity, and she and her party win the election outright.
With total control over the country, Francis outlines her plan, called The Anxiety: introduce a wealth threshold of $20m – anybody over the threshold will be immediately executed (or as Francis calls it: mandatory suicide). Despite the brutality of the plan, it receives widespread support from the many millions of underpaid, exploited citizens.
At the end of the first round of The Anxiety, inequality remains, so Francis lowers the threshold to $5m. She then learns from her staff that she herself is worth more than $8m, and thus qualifies for mandatory suicide.
Unable to backtrack, and in an attempt to derail the efforts of The Anxiety, Francis implements hyperinflation, in the hope that if everybody exceeds the threshold, the system will crash.
Unfortunately, the system continues. With no other options left to her, and with the guilt of what she has done weighing heavily on her, Francis decides to surrender. By this point, however, too many people are invested in her scheme, and the violence escalates day by day.
Luckily, a team from Internal Affairs has been on the heels of Francis since she became president, and they come to arrest her at the Presidential Offices. As the Internal Affairs forces battle their way through the heavily armed resistance of Francis’s people, Francis orders a helicopter to take her to safety, but upon seeing Dave on TV, and seeing how his non-violent methods are proving more popular than her own, she decides to launch the country’s entire nuclear arsenal.
Internal Affairs forces finally arrive at Francis’s office, but it is too late to stop the nuclear attack. They arrest her and escape in Francis’s helicopter as the city explodes behind them.
A brief epilogue catches up with the main characters a few years later. They all live in a simple farming community, with human civilization having been thrown back several thousand years. Due to the severe lack of human beings left alive, they have pardoned Francis, who now works with them as a farmer, although she remains unrepentant to the end.
