The Corporation
by Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar
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Actor: Carlton Brown, Chris Barrett, Jane Akre, Maude Barlow, Ray AndersonDirector: Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar
Brand: MOORE,MICHAEL
Producer: Mark Achbar
Writer: Mark Achbar
Producer: Bart Simpson
Producer: Maureen Levitt
Writer: Harold Crooks
Writer: Joel Bakan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 145 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
DVD Reviews of The Corporation
DVD Review: Amazing and Important!
Summary: 5 Stars
Every person in the United States needs to sit down, pay full attention, watch this movie and ask themselves how they can be part of a solution.
This is riveting and hard to watch. This film exposes an ugly truth that we are all struggling with daily. We are serfs in a corporate feudal world with no real control over anything.
Buy it immediately and watch it soon.
The premise is powerful and the art of presentation is amazing. They have taken a legal topic that is dense and confusing and made it entertaining and understandable.
I am grateful to everyone involved in making this film. Thank you!
DVD Review: Revealed !
Summary: 5 Stars
What an interesting review of corporation ethics, or rather, the lack of ethics. The Corporation draws upon the now-ingrained belief that a company is the equivalent to a human person (which by law and business-serving conservative court judgment is now common law). Then it goes into a comparison of these "persons" behavior in the world. At every turn, corporations are found to be psychopathic persons, bent on self-serving behaviors that have no regard for their fellow "persons".
Recommend this documentary to everyone, especially those who are brand loyal. They spent a lot of money convincing you that they care. (Psst! ..they don't!)
DVD Review: Today's dominant institution
Summary: 5 Stars
The Corporation is today's dominant institution. This awkward entity is considered a "person" by law, but has all the characteristics of a psychopath when examined closely : it shows no emotions nor feelings, has no conscience, is incapable of experiencing guilt, and its sole purpose it is to make profits, no matter how.
Therefore corporations are very fond of fascist regimes, such as Nazi Germany, where IBM offered support with their machines counting the deaths in the concentration camps. Corporations themselves sometimes behave as mass murderers, like the asbestos companies. They sometimes hire murderers, like Chiquita did in Colombia, to kill syndical leaders. Corporations deplete our natural resources, like Big Oil does. Corporations pollute our environment and our food with artificial chemicals, causing a cancer epidemic, affecting nowadays 44 % of the men and 38 % of the women, following Dr. Samuel Epstein.
Corporations are so powerful that they are never prosecuted. If necessary, they change the legislation to suit their interests. They even succeeded patenting things that were impossible to patent - life itself, as Jeremy Rifkin explains.
Corporations got so powerful they determine how governments should behave, even if they go broke. Then the government must help them, socializing the losses to the people in general.
Corporations always want to make more and more money. They see "business opportunities" in every imaginable service to the people. Noam Chomsky gives his point of view on the privatizations we suffered in the last decades : "Privatization does not mean you take a public institution and give it to some nice person; it means you take a public institution and give it to an unaccountable tyranny". In this movie the example is showed of the privatization of Cochabamba public water in Bolivia, but you can also consider what Enron did in California, what the "health companies" did with health care in the US (look at Sicko by Michael Moore), what the pension funds are doing with our expected retirement money, etc.
Michael Moore sometimes wonders why companies finance his films, but then he considers that when he succeeds making money for the big media companies, they're fine with whatever he says. Corporations think people are too numb to do something. Moore hopes however that people will stand up from the couch, and do something. Will you ?
DVD Review: Really, Really Dumb
Summary: 1 Stars
I was hoping I could show this film to my business ethics class, in order to spark some interesting discussion. I was very disappointed. It is certainly one of the worst pieces of ratiocination I have ever examined -- I would not want to waste my students' time with it. It's not worth discussing. It makes heavy use of a version of the economic notion of "externalities" which is more or less incoherent.DVD Review: Amazing but watch past the first 15 minutes.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best movie I have ever seen. It allows us to think more clearly about the world's psychotic obsession with capitalism.
Description of The Corporation
This charts the spectacular rise of the corporation as a dramatic pervasive presence in our everyday lives. Features illuminating interviews with noam chomsky michael moore historian howard zinn .. As well as corporate honchos whistleblowers & big business spies. Studio: Zeitgeist Films Release Date: 04/05/2005 Run time: 145 minutes Rating: NrAn epic in length and breadth, this documentary aims at nothing less than a full-scale portrait of the most dominant institution on the planet Earth in our lifetime--a phenomenon all the more remarkable, if not downright frightening, when you consider that the corporation as we know it has been around for only about 150 years. It used to be that corporations were, by definition, short-lived and finite in agenda. If a town needed a bridge built, a corporation was set up to finance and complete the project; when the bridge was an accomplished fact, the corporation ceased to be. Then came the 19th-century robber barons, and the courts were prevailed upon to define corporations not as get-the-job-done mechanisms but as persons under the 14th Amendment with full civil rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (i.e., power and profit)--ad infinitum.
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
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