Environmentalists, businessmen, politicians, activists, journalists,
writers, workers, and many more tell their side of the story when it comes to
dealing with the one of the most pervasive forces of modern times, the
corporation. The film unfolds practically, explaining the significance of the
corporate world and its influence in every realm it addresses thereafter.
Tongue-in-cheek, the film focuses its point-by-point slamming of corporate
actions by treating the corporation as an individual getting a psychiatric
evaluation for insanity (because corporations are legally individuals with
rights like any real person). The crescendo builds as accusations, rumors, and
worries about corporations are examined and given evidence to. It also allows
the corporate side to give perspective, notably the sincere and concerned face
of Shell oil giant embodied by a CEO who appears in activist footage with his
wife, talking civilly with and giving tea to protestors who come to their home.
Undoubtedly a film that holds corporations in the wrong, it is rooted in
hard facts, which it amply provides via archive video footage (like the
heart-breaking story of a Bolivian community that fights for the rights to
rainwater against a corporation) and numerous interviews (of which the film is
mainly comprised of). Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, FOX News reporters,
corporate execs, Bolivian activists, among many others, all appear. One of the
few well-organized, focused, researched, intelligent, and entertaining
political films in recent times that challenges viewers to examine the bigger
picture.
145 min.
Also try…Roger and Me (a Michael Moore documentary)