The most important film I've seen in years...

Shagz

Shagz

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http://thecorporation.tv/

I just saw this movie/documentary last night and I wanted to make sure everybody knew about it, as it is probably the most important film made in the last ten years.

Certainly one of the most chilling and important films I've seen in a long time, The Corporation is a film that delves into what a corporation is, and the evils (and sometimes "goods") that it has visited upon us and this planet.

It's incredibly scarey, and sometimes depressing, how big business has spread and pillaged through out the world, with complete disregard for human life, the enviroment and the rights of those who live and work in the countries in which these corporations are "investing".  But the movie does leave you with a little bit of hope at the end, and a challenge to do something about what you've just seen in the documentary.

By legal definition, a corporation is treated as its own entity, a legal "person" with its own rights.  If a corporation, the dominant institution of our time, is a person, what kind of person is it?  I'll leave it to you to peruse the synopsis of the movie and draw your own conclusions, but I encourage you to see this flick, whether you are concerned about the issues facing our planet today or not.

Maybe you won't be moved by sweat shops in Peru making (and *still* making, contrary to popular belief) Kathy Lee Gifford apparell for Wal Mart, but you'll probably be disturbed by the chemicals that Monsanto is putting in your milk (if you live in the US, anyways).

Unfortunately, it appears that the film is only playing at Canadian locations at the moment, but look for it to spread to other city centers world-wide soon.
 
Have either of you seen it? (The Passion) I thought it wasn't due for a couple more months (in Canada at any rate).

I won't argue which movie is more important - both films I think are important in the realm of public education - I just happen to have seen The Corporation before Passion.
 
The passion isn't out yet.  Toe, DA, re-read the title...the most important film he's Seen in years. Not will see.

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Cory
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*Ahem*
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Anyways, I still recommend seeing this movie, if you can. It's totally motivated me to do a lot more to take care of this planet that we live on, because so few people around me seem to care.

At the risk of high jacking my own thread and changing topics, there's been a lot of buzz here talking about Gibson's "The Passion", but unfortunately not much talk about another, quieter Jesus movie that came out this past year, "The Gospel of John.

To me, "John" seems like a wholly more interesting artistic endevour than the ever-growing hype machine that powers Gibson's project.

Essentially, "John" is a straight, word for word performance of the Gospel of John, based on the Good News translation of the Bible. I have seen neither film, but "John" seems more interesting to me because it's nearly devoid of any "re-interpretation" or over emphasis or opinion on its subject matter, and lets the text sort've stand on its own, at least from what I understand about the film. Yes, there's interpretation in the way the actors perform their roles or say their lines with a certain inflection, and the director has choices to make in which the way he shoots the film, but the text is "untouchable" and cannot be changed, and is, in a way, closer to the "source" than Gibson's film.

Has any one here seen "The Gospel of John"? I'd like to know what they thought of the way it was put together. I missed it at the Toronto Film Fest and it's long moved out of the rep theatres, so my best chance of seeing it is renting it.
 
I know he said seen.
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I was simply stating that the title will probably be moot come Wednesday. I'm honestly kinda disappointed that subtitles were added, but I'm sure it won't lessen it's impact much.
 
Shagz,

I watched the trailer on John last night. I think I am going to try and pick it up and watch it this week if it is in any of the video stores here. I wonder if this movie was more behind the motivation of Gibson to shoot his...funny how he decided to do this about the same time.

Cory
 
Just a note guys, The Corporation will be making its debut in the US this summer.  Again, I urge you to check this film out for the reasons I stated earlier in this thread.  The information presented in this film is alarming, especially the story about the Motsano steroid cover up.

Cheers,
  Shagz
 
wonder if it will come down under???

the passion will make you cry. And cringe. I hate dirt in my cuts.........


sealcomm
 
Cool, I didn't know we had Aussies in the clan!

I've seen The Passion, and it was quite powerful, but I guess for me The Corporation had more of an impact.  It was chilling and I believe it had an important message that we all need to hear.

Note to everybody: I don't want to debate over how The Passion is the greatest movie ever made and it's better than everything else out there, period.  The Passion is great and that's all find and good.  My point is that I think The Corporation is *also* a very important film with a very scary message.  If you go see it, *then* you can come back here and we can discuss the merits of one over the other, but really they're apples and oranges: one's a work of art that deals with religion and the other's a documentry that deals with the enviroment, corporate responsibility (or lack there of), consumerism and world politics so you can't really compare them. We'll all come away from both movies with different ideas over how "good" those films were.
 
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