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Posted at August 26, 2010, 8:30 am:


I dont know if people do docs much but i saw super size me (OH MY GOD ITS SO HARD TO CLIMB THESE STAIRS ) so here goes,

The Corporation is a great documentary that explores the nature, evolution, impacts and possible future for the corporation as we know it today. it contains good but not over the top footage from advertising, TV news and corporate propaganda and puts forward its argument with disturbing case studies, anecdotes and interviews.

This documentary mainly focuses on American corporations because of the "Legal person Legislation", that is a corporation by american law is regarded as a single person. So a corporation is usually only interested in its shareholders. The doc puts forward the interesting argument, "that if a corporation is a person, then what kind of person?".

The doc makes a phsycological checklist and gives a diagnosis of the nature of the corporations "legal person". using shocking and disturbing case histories the diagnosis results in the corporation being regarded physcologically as a physcopath!. eg Monsanto's involvement with "DDT" and "Agent Orange".

this doc also uses a great narrator, the cold, alomost mechanical voice further freaked me out when i viewed this film. Viewers expecting entertainment of Micheal Moore proportoins you may be dissapointed, although you also might pleasantly surprised. at a 145 minutes some people might get bored but i advise you to sit through it, it is well worth it.

the question immediately popped into my headwhen viewing this, Do we really want the most dominant institution of our time to have this personality and records. When will these things change? and what can be done about the current situation of capitalization, globalization and the corporate world today?. this doc made me laugh, growl and get an anxiety attack all at the same time.

4 stars.

PS
Only after the Last Tree has been cut down,
Only after the Last River has been poisoned,
Only after the Last Fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that
Money Cannot Be Eaten.
Cree Indian Prophecy


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good review.

I saw the whole thing, and understood most of it.

A wake up call for many.

its like you know most of it, yet it still shocks you.

I loved this film.

I thought the film lost it's direction in the last act.

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