The Corporation. Cinema to understand the reality: The Corporation is primarily this, the 2003 Canadian documentary, directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan based on the book (Fandango Books). It starts from a distance, looking at the birth of the concept of the corporation and the sneaky way in which it took advantage of a law for slaves born blacks, equated with a "legal person", which basically gave certain rights to acquire and then , the power in the global economy. A theme is very urgent, gutted documentation extensive and accurate, not a documentary to Michael Moore "(which also appear among the contributors, alongside Noan Chomsky, Naomi Klein and other icons of the anti-globalization movement), but two hours or more to paint a fresco corporate world and the folly of standing global capitalism. Thanks also to the testimony of managers and executives, financial guru, industrial spies and advertising: the perfect gentleman responsible for such incredible speculation to the detriment of children. A disturbing schizophrenia inherent in the notion that the profit motive has no constitutional limits. Corporations are seen more as individuals and as companies, and each has its own personality, its peculiarities, but, unlike real people, they "have no soul to save nor a body to be incarcerated, and that's where amorality thrives, although it is entitled.
"If we see a corporation as a legal person, should not be so hard to put in parallel the individual with psychopathy psychopathy of the corporation. We examine the characteristics of this particular disorder, one by one, applied corporations ... It would have all the features. Indeed, in many respects, the corporation meets the prototypical psychopath. " These are the words of Robert Hare, a psychologist at the FBI. The film opens with George Bush pledged in his speech that he gave to the nation after the Enron scandal: "A few bad apples in a sound system" was hypocritical official version, in the media.
But the film shows that it is not so specific examples which cast a dark shadow over the system of the corporation, the film is full. From the Nazi regime with the complicity of IBM (the ink with which the deportees were marked in the camps was provided by IBM, which is also offered to organize the brutal accounts of Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald) the scandal of contaminated milk by Monsanto, discovered two reporter fired and never compensated because of a technicality, The Corporation is a documentary to counter that despite the length and amount of information it contains, is not boring for the viewer, leading them through a journey of discovery in those that have become, thanks to American law, the updated version of monarchies and dictatorships. It poses a legitimate question about the future of a system so sick and more and more without any sort of democratic control. [Antiniska Pozzi Cineforum speaker]
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