Helinski_The_Corporation


 * The Corporation**

1. Title, director and release year? - The Corporation - [|Mark Achbar], [|Jennifer Abbott] - 2003

2. What is the central argument or narrative of the film? - The development of the corporate world o How is has evolved into the monstrosity that it is today - The roots of corporation and how they exploited resources from the beginning - The overall destructive nature of corporations

3. What sustainability problems does the film draw out? - The flaws which say that Corporations are individuals yet do not have the same emotional limitations that we do o “no soul” or Body o Only focus on how much money can the profit by the end of the quarter - Exploitation of human labor - Exploitation of animals

4. What parts of the film did you find most persuasive and compelling? Why? - The concept that corporations are identifies as an individual and has the many of the same rights that we do - The perspective of what people described the major corporations as o And in turn saying that they are soul-less and only care about the profit turned - The comparison of corporations to a shark o Both being designed to achieve a single thing - How little workers were being paid in turn for the retail price of certain consumer products o Nike’s documentations breaking times down into such detail and o in turn paying workers 1/10 of one percent of the retail price - The extreme reaction from the factory owner when the camera man just entered o Obviously aware that what is occurring is unjust - The justification for injecting every eligible cow o Claiming that every cow not injected is a lost revenue o Placing profit over health effects o A company that produced Agent Orange is now producing chemicals to be injected into animal live stock - The fact that the disposal of the paper waster was just accepted by people as something that just happens every night - The deceitfulness of all of the major companies o Yet still do not affect their present day image o The penalty being cheaper and most cost beneficial for them compared to complying § Why don’t the fines increase the be worthwhile and teach corporations their wrong doings - Living organisms besides a full living human being can be patented o What declares that the living organisms have an owener o Life is soon taking the path to becoming a commodity - How the media morphs the truth to broadcast in accordance to who has the top dollar o The bribing of Monsanto to the writers who are exposing the effects of their chemicals o The different strategies that the companies are tracking to cover up their tracks § The placement of the revenue of the company over the human health effects § Falsifying news is not against the law

5. What parts of the film were you not compelled or convinced by? - The Department of Labor telling us how little people are being paid, yet as he is talking the office is a mess o Believe that this rates are the truth yet the environment took away from the impacting factor - The suggestion that having every interest of the earth being owned by someone of something in order to protect it o The world is not a secure atmosphere and this only raises the risk of undermining protection o The ownership of genes could be self destructive because there are so many issues that need to be fixed (caner and others) that may be inhibited to being cured because not all companies have access to all genes that may be required - Author stating that restrictions of corporations need to be put in place by the government and not by the org itself o They are currently limited by government yet it does not stop the organizations from breaking these rules

6. What additional information does this film compel you to seek out? Where do you want to dig deeper and what connections do you want to make with other issues, factors, problems, etc.? - Testimonies from companies that validate why they are exploiting such underpaid labor - More of the discussion from the factory owner who tweeked on the camera man when entering the factory door o Every worker’s justifications - The business plan for the companies that are injecting the cows with these substances o What is the justification o Are there any touches upon the negative side effects?

7. What audiences does the film best address? What kind of imagination is fostered in viewers? Do you think the film is likely to change the way viewers think about and act on environmental problems? - Those who feel that the government has control over corporations to keep them in check - Customers who feel that that corporations have justifiable values o Open their eyes that to the corporations, people are just a dollar sign and will do whatever to gain as many as they can

8. What kinds of action or points of intervention are suggested by the film? -Support of Corporations leads to the destruction of mom and pop shops - Not supporting corporations that exploit cheap international labor and leads to poor living conditions of others for your cheap products - Support companies which produce their products in a proper manner

9. What could have been added to this film to enhance its environmental educational value? - The film went into detail about what company paid what fines, but how many were repeat offenders? o How many fines for how much each o Justifications of each repeat fine