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Amazing and Important! 2009-05-04

Reviewer: T. Vincent

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!

Revealed ! 2009-03-19

Reviewer: P. Malinovsky

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!)

Today's dominant institution 2009-02-13

Reviewer: G. Denutte

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 ?

Really, Really Dumb 2009-02-10

Reviewer: Lester H. Hunt

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.

Amazing but watch past the first 15 minutes. 2009-01-26

Reviewer: S. Frank

This is the best movie I have ever seen. It allows us to think more clearly about the world's psychotic obsession with capitalism.