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The Corporation defines this endlessly mutating life-form in exhaustive detail, measuring the many ways it has not only come to dominate but to deform our reality. The movie performs a running psychoanalysis of this entity with the characteristics of a prototypical psychopath: a callous unconcern for the feelings and safety of others, an incapacity to experience guilt, an ingrained habit of lying for profit, etc. We are swept away on a demented odyssey through an altered cosmos, in which artificial chemicals are created for profit and incidentally contribute to a cancer epidemic; in which the folks who brought us Agent Orange devise a milk-increasing drug for a world in which there is already a glut of milk; in which an American computer company leased its systems to the Nazis--and serviced them on a monthly basis--so that the Holocaust could go forward as an orderly process.
The movie goes on too long, circles too many points obsessively and redundantly, and risks preaching-to-the-choir reductiveness by calling on the usual talking-head suspects--Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Moore. And except for an endlessly receding tracking shot in an infinite patents archive, there's scarcely an image worth recalling. Still, it maps the new reality. This is our world--welcome to it. --Richard T. Jameson
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 04 June, 2004 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Zeitgeist Films |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Adult Situations, Boardroom Jungle, Business, Canada, Color, Culture & Society, Deadpan, Deliberate, Documentary, English, Irreverent, Matter-of-Fact, Movie, Politics & Government, Profanity, Social Issues, Work Ethics |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 795975106535 |
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The Corporation -- Viewed from the Left This is a well-made documentary on the subject of corporate capitalism. While it provides views from both the right and the left, the film makers clearly favor the leftist view. Some of the most interesting people on the left, like Naomi Klein, Michael Moore, and Howard Zinn, are included in talking-head interviews, and there are some very interesting scenes involving interviews with both repentant and unrepentant capitalists that nicely make the film makers' point that corporations are amoral. There is some footage of the anti-globalization demonstrations at the 2001 Summit of the Americas. The ever-present Noam Chomsky is also featured making some patently absurd claims about alternatives to capitalism. Naomi Klein in contrast makes sense as she talks about advertising and branding and how it is affecting our culture. I am using the film in an undergraduate course on international political economy along with The Commanding Heights to expose my students to contemporary political arguments about globalization. So I recommend the film to other instructors as a supplement to readings and lectures that provide a broader picture of the debate.
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While this movie is a little long, there is a lot of great information you won't get from the mainstream media.
Are you kidding me?
I can't even write a serious review for this film. I can't stop laughing. The entire film is biased and idiotic. The film doesn't end on the words of a Nobel Prize winner, CEO, or someone who understands corporations, but on the words of Michael Moore. Are you kidding me?
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>If you are looking for insight into the corporate animal you'll be disappointed.