The Corporation
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CORPORATION - DVD Movie
This is our world--welcome to it. 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. 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. 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. 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. --Richard T. Jameson Still, it maps the new reality. An 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. And except for an endlessly receding tracking shot in an infinite patents archive, there's scarcely an image worth recalling. It used to be that corporations were, by definition, short-lived and finite in agenda.
Product Info
- Actor
- Mikela J. Mikael, Rob Beckwermert, Christopher Gora, Nina Jones, Richard Kopycinski
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.85:1
- Audience Rating
- Binding
- DVD
- Brand
- Zeitgeist Films
- Creator
- Mark Achbar, Bart Simpson, Cari Green, Harold Crooks, Joel Bakan, Thomas Shandel
- Director
- Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar
- EAN
- 0795975106535
- EAN List
- EANListElement: 0795975106535
- Format
- Color, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
- Label
- Zeitgeist Films
- Manufacturer
- Zeitgeist Films
- MPN
- ZEIDZ1065D
- Number Of Discs
- 2
- Package Quantity
- 1
- Part Number
- ZEIDZ1065D
- Product Group
- DVD
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_DVD
- Publisher
- Zeitgeist Films
- Region Code
- 1
- Release Date
- 2005-04-05
- Running Time
- 145
- SKU
- 3161276
- Studio
- Zeitgeist Films
- Title
- The Corporation
- UPC
- 795975106535
- UPC List
- UPCListElement: 795975106535
- ASIN
- B0007DBJM8
- Sales Rank
- 6021
