Nietzsche speaks of this.
(a friend recently told me about the concept of "amor fati")
This film gets a lot of criticism because of its pretentiousness and cheeziness. However one has to admit that the fact that this film has stood the test of time is a testament to some sort of greatness, or at least some positive qualities. Though this is no perfect film by any measure, these qualities absolutely exist.
The characters are probably the strongest asset of the film. The main character is an unemployed pseudophilosopher who tends to talk too much…
Putting aside the glaring technical inaccessibility and the inability to draw concrete conclusions, this might be one of the most important documentaries of the last decade, showing how opaque, pseudo-independent institutions, which are subject to private and foreign interests, rule the fates of their countries' citizens, while also becoming the single point of failure for modern capitalism.