Canadian author, journalist, and activist Naomi Klein in her new book The Shock Doctrine speaks about the development of shock treatment methods in the 1950s by the CIA as a part of breaking prisoners down to a state for susesptable to manipulation.  The book and short film try to spread the idea, that governments finds it easy and convenient to use natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and other shocking events to instantly commence unpopular policies and agendum while the population is in a state of shock.

After finishing the book, the writer sent it to director Alfonso Cuaron in hopes to receive a quote from him to use it for the cover of the book, but instead, unexpectedly got a proposal to make a short film - The Shock Doctrine.

The result is a movie with a 6 minute runtime by the director of cult film Children of Men: a movie which, in the words of Namoi Klein, is very close to the reality she had seen in disaster zones. The film is well made, and though it does not show some brutal scenes of violence it gives us a clear conception of what’s happening and why.

The Shock Doctrine presents its theory in an interesting way, analysing how a number of recent events, have become a stage for the shock doctrine, although, in my opinion it somtimes lacks facts and occasionally relies purely on assumptions.