Kathy Drake

September 20, 2005

The Corporation: movie review

The producers of the film “The Corporation” are Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott.  The theme is to explore the views, the actions, and the nature of corporations today and how they influence change and damage culture, society, and our living environments on a daily basis all in pursuit for larger profits.  The producers are able to accomplish this by interviewing people from all sides of the debate.  I think the goal of the film isn’t to attack corporations directly but to educate and inform the viewer and society how corporations began and how they have evolved.  The film aims to inform the people that the future for corporations lies in their hands because in a democracy we have the ability to take back the power from the corporation.  I completely agree with the producers’ position on the problem with corporations and feel even more strongly about it from the ways they depicted the problem in this film.  

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Corporations began about 150 years ago as short-lived organizations made basically to get the task at hand completed and once the task was finished so was the corporation.  As the 19th century approached corporations changed completely.  Corporations have been deemed “legal persons” which gives them all the same civil rights as a citizen.  As the film showed, yes the corporation is considered a “legal person” but they do not possess the same social or moral obligations to society at all.  That is why I agree with the reference that corporations today are more like psychopaths since they possess many of the ...

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