The Corporation

In watching The Corporation I was able to pick specific scenes that really stuck out to me and showed me the insides and outs of major corporations. One part of the film in particular stuck out to me. The part was the personality assessment of major corporations. The film gave corporations an assessment test much like the one humans take. The reason for giving the corporation this assessment test was because corporations had all the same rights as humans, they could buy up other businesses, they could patent a product, they were even able to patent living things. The only thing missing in comparing corporations to humans was corporations missing a soul and feelings towards other humans.

In the film it has many variables in a check box format that has all the traits of a psychopath. The Corporation's checked off on all of them giving them psychopath status. I believe what the movie was getting to was the fact that everyone in the corporations try to emit themselves as humans just like us and try to relate to whatever we are to sell their products. They do not personally care what we are into or how our family is doing but, they want us to think that so we can keep pouring money into "good" corporations. The movie shows that corporations are in fact not human and even if they were, there is evidence that they would be psychopaths.

Another thing I noticed in the movie was the lack of other countries companies in the movie. It was only North American brands and mostly American brands at that. The film was made in Canada but, there were few Canadian brands and zero foreign brands. I was trying to think of all the car manufacturers overseas and what this movie would have to say about them but, there was no mention of car manufacturers, let alone cars over seas.

The biggest thing that left me scratching my head was the fact that the producers spent so much time on American products and corporations but, the little clip they showed of kids not being able to drink rain water because it is privatized and the kids having to make choices, water or education? I could not fathom ever having to make that choice and the fact that they couldn't get an interview with whoever is responsible and didn't delve further into the subject leaves me scratching my head. This is bigger than the movie, this is money over many of lives. I wish they would have delved further into this subject because I think it is insane someone can privatize rain water or any kind of natural water in the world.

The Corporation is an eye opening film that goes even further into the disregards of corporation's on people and uses very creative ways (checklist) to draw the watcher into the program. I just wish they would have shown the movie on a much more global scale, especially the third world countries that are being screwed over even worse than most Americans.