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The Corporation

Avec : Jane Akre, Ray Anderson Réalisateur : Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar MPAA Rating: UNRATED
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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. It used to be that corporations were, by definition, short-lived and finite in agenda. 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. 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. 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. 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. And except for an endlessly receding tracking shot in an infinite patents archive, there's scarcely an image worth recalling. Still, it maps the new reality. This is our world--welcome to it. --Richard T. Jameson

Review

It's not easy to make an entertaining documentary -- running nearly two and a half hours, no less -- about a subject that most audiences find too depressing, challenging, and complex to foster engagement. Remarkably, The Corporation does just that, its achievement all the more laudable for taking on a topic whose very nature is amorphous and hard to identify. As the title indicates, that topic is the corporation itself -- that faceless but omnipresent body that, in the guise of countless business and manufacturing organizations, exerts massive influence over modern industrial life. The left-leaning politics of the filmmakers are apparent, but never in a dogmatic way, as they break up the movie into numerous sections diagnosing and offering prognoses for the corporation, as if that entity was a psychiatric patient. To no surprise, the corporation comes off roughly equivalent to the most disturbed mentally ill individuals, acting without guilt, shame, or consideration of consequences that include environmental devastation, disregard for personal and legal rights, and wanton exploitation of third-world peoples and resources (and much more, but a complete list would necessitate several capsule reviews). Sound dry? It isn't, because the filmmakers cannily employ witty graphics, stock footage, and above all, fascinating interviews to illustrate the history of the growth of the destructive power of corporations, fast-paced and well edited. The interviewees include some of the usual suspects you'd expect to show up in such a film -- Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, and Howard Zinn, for instance -- but many more less celebrated figures comment, sometimes guardedly and sometimes surprisingly frankly, on the monstrous but relatively anonymous behavior corporations generate. Some of them, one suspects, end up giving away more than they really want to. What's even more chilling than the environmental damage and human exploitation that corporations wreak is the guileless, almost gleefully willful co-option of some of the interviewees into the corporate process, like the university students whose studies are actually "sponsored" and paid for by corporations; the Shell executive who claims that he shares the same goals as protesters against his company's environmental policies; or the guy who makes a living being a deceitful corporate infiltrator-spy of sorts. In this way, it's suggested that part of the corporate malady is the human character itself. It's a depressing, if informative and thought-provoking, prognosis, though ameliorated slightly by a more hopeful closing section documenting some pockets of resistance to the corporate danger, most movingly through a carpet manufacturer who actually seems sincerely dedicated to making his business more ecologically responsible. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Movie Guide

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21 internautes sur 23 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
5.0étoiles sur 5 Fantastic Extras, Avril 9 2005
Par Mark Achbar (Vancouver, BC Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Even if I hadn't been one of the filmmakers, I'm sure I would have highly recommended this film, but what Amazon.ca doesn't specify in detail are all the extras, which I put a lot of time (and money!) into creating for your viewing pleasure.

DISC ONE

* * Two feature audio commentaries: One with co-directors Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, and one with writer Joel Bakan
* * Janeane Garofolo interviews Joel Bakan on Air America's Majority Report
* * "Q's and A's": A selection of television, radio and festival interview segments with the filmmakers, including segments from CNN Financial, WNYC, WBAI, and Air America
* * Theatrical trailers for The Corporation and Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
* * Selection of deleted scenes, including additional clips from Michael Moore's The Awful Truth
* * Grassroots marketing video segment

DISC TWO

* * "Topical Paradise" and "Tell Me More": Over 5.5 hours of additional footage of The Corporation's 40 interviewees (and then some), searchable by topic or interview subject
* * Plus: Additional trailers, a very cool short film ("What Barry Says"), web links, subject updates, and more! Yes, even more. Like an incredible keynote presentation that Thomas Alan Linzey gave at the Bioneers conference last year (it's the last item in the list of "Strategies For Change".)

I sat down one day and figured out that if you were to watch the film and all the extras, and listened to all the audio commentaries, it would total a 16 hour media experience... I'm not suggesting anyone actually put themselves through that, but the way it's laid out, whatever your area of interest, there's something there for you that will enhance your experience of the film. So enjoy! Well, maybe that's not the right word, but I'm sure you'll get SOMETHING out of this 2-disc set.

And check out www.thecorporation.com to find out all kinds of ways you can get involved and make a difference.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Time to increase liability, Aoû 12 2005
Par jennifer messier "Eric Trudel" (LACOLLE, Quebec Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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The book and the film is not about eliminating the profit motive, despite what the authors of The Rebel Sell (Joseph Heath & Andrew Potter) have said. This is about passing laws to ensure that corporations are not only accountable to their shareholders, but to all stakeholders as well - a corporation's employees and all the people its business affects. Limited liability and the fact that corporations are seen as people by the law have made corporations, especially multinationals, far too powerful. The film offers a potent political starting point to ensure greater social justice and environmental protection in a world that is increasingly bought and sold by corporations.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 A COMPELLING TRUTH !, Jui 4 2006
Par John Blair "John Blair" (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Contrary to the misinformed review by an anonymous "customer" (December 2005), The Corporation video tells it like it is. The truth is not always pretty, but it is necessary to know. Corporations are not benevolent institutions (their primary 'legal' responsibility is to maximize profits for their shareholders). If anyone thinks I'm not telling the truth, you know my real name and my city ... so find me and sue me!

This is one DVD which MUST be shown to every secondary school student before they are allowed to graduate. Not only is it educational and topical, but also highly entertaining! I wish I could give it MORE than 5 stars!
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5.0étoiles sur 5 EXCELLENT FILM :-)
Fantastic, entertaining, enlightening, educational film. I agree - not only every single secondary school student should watch it AND have discussions/debates afterwards in their... Read more
Publié il y a 4 mois par Concerned World Citizen

3.0étoiles sur 5 NOT THE 2 DISC VERSION
Mark Achbar's review is included inappropriately under this edition of the DVD. It lends the impression that this is a 2 DVD set.

THIS edition is a single DVD. Read more
Publié il y a 11 mois par CaptStLucifer

5.0étoiles sur 5 How did corporations come to dominate?
A great testament to the way the corprate world has influenced and shaped our societies and, perhaps, ourselves. Read more
Publié le Avril 8 2007 par Aaron Donnelly

1.0étoiles sur 5 Irresponsible nonsense that hurts its own cause
This film could easily be part of a right-wing conspiracy to simultaneously lure left-wingers into a sense of "woe-is-me" helplessness AND to make them look unfocussed, hysterical... Read more
Publié le Juil 8 2006 par Mistress La Spliffe

1.0étoiles sur 5 Weak and simplistic
Highly simplified view of the world sure to please socialists - an unbalanced and silly view towards real world economics and human behaviour. Read more
Publié le Déc 22 2005

4.0étoiles sur 5 Essential Viewing for the Modern, Brainwashed Consumer!
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Thanks to publicly funded broadcasting, I first saw The Corporation on TV over a year ago, but I assume this 2-disc DVD (which is now on my wish-list) contains everything I... Read more
Publié le Juil 13 2005 par Conrad the Concerned Citizen

5.0étoiles sur 5 Phenomenal, amazing, powerful
If there is a movie you MUST see - this is the one.
Look at all the people they have in the film: http://thecorporation.com/index.php? Read more
Publié le Avril 17 2005 par Aleksey M.

5.0étoiles sur 5 If there ever was a must-see documentary...
... this is absolutely the one. Albeit slightly single-minded in direction and viewpoint, the film is a superb depiction of the late 20th century world where corporations play... Read more
Publié le Avril 5 2005 par Dejan

5.0étoiles sur 5 The most important movie you could see
It's that simple.

This movie should be shown as part of early secondary education worldwide. "The Corporation" is a powerful experience that's not to be... Read more

Publié le Mars 30 2005 par Kevin L.

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