The review of the Documentary: The Corporation

The Corporation is a Canadian documentary necessitate, which appeared in 2003. The movie is ground on the book The Corporation The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan. Filmmaking team, which consists of Jennifer Abbott, Joel Bakan and Mark Achbar, has produced a nice combination of documentary movie presented in an unusual stylus. It explores origins, development and present state of corporation. The authors of the film study the impact corporations have on the modern society in general and individual plurality in particular.The film presents unprejudiced view on such mega corporations as McDonalds, Coca-Cola, IBM and Nike. Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman and Noam Chomsky, respected economists and Noble prize-winners, stockpile their views on the impact of corporation. They make a good deal appearinging true appearance of corporations and enamour they have on average people.This is the type of the movie, which makes people think and imagine possi ble consequences of the activities of the corporations we now descry as an inevitable part of our life. Sharp critics in the movie do not only evince the opinion of the authors. Much data and statistics presented in the movie prove that facts given there are not a fruit of the authors imagination. The film explores an important problem and those, who care close their own prox and future of their children, should be aware of the facts given there.The authors of the movie overlay corporations as separate individuals and judge their deeds accordingly. honoring things from such a perspective gives the consultation a better understanding of the harm committed by the corporations to the society. Specific examples jock to create necessary effect. Originally, corporation was created by the government and possessed specific functions. In modern world corporations possess legal rights same as individuals do. Such equality was primary initiated by the decision of the U.S.Supreme Court, which gave corporations or time-limited entities same rights as individuals. Such a decision has had a indestructible effect including misuse or even abuse of monopoly, additional political influence and many others. The authors smack to analyze corporations using criteria of modern psychology, such as DSM-IV, Robert Hares and other evaluation criteria. They treat world-famous corporations as psychopaths. Ameri ordure corporations become the object of scrupulous attention. All the results tell that if treated like a person, a corporation would have serious personality disorders.Corporations are estimated in regard to their serial behaviors with the help of a Personality Diagnostic Checklist. Those, who organize an experiment find such things of disorders as manipulation, lying, paying no attention to the needs of other people and many others, which modern psychologists associate with psychopathic individuals. It is worth to maintain that experiment is made by true psychologists and it means that their diagnosis can be trusted.Theoretical hindquarters of the movie gives a lot of exact data and statistics. This helps the audience to make their own conclusions concerning the problem. Long theorizing can be boring at times but the authors did their best in order not to take out any important information, which would be able to influence peoples opinion. The authors use strong arguments in order to prove their thesis.At the same time The Corporation uses entertaining techniques and has things, which can attract audience and entertain it. Exploring on of the most influential models of modern time, the authors of the film are far from abstract blandishment and pathetic claims. Great number of commentators, who express their opinion on the subject, make an impression of professional and duncish investigation performed by the authors. In addition to serious investigation and opinion of qualified spareists, wit and amusing narration style helps to avoid dulln ess. Computer graphics create additional visionary effects and adds special charm to the film.Irony, wit and humor help the authors of the movie to express their main idea to shed idle to such important questions as global warming, exhausting natural resource, governmental corruption, human rights and rich-poor gap and the way corporations are messed up with all these problems. The film is challenging not only because it uses innovative approach compare corporations to individuals, but also because it gives new perspective on the problem with corporation.Filmmakers tell a story of corporations and show how they became so powerful and mighty that even can influence lives of people all over the world. They show dirty tricks used by these corporations and point out the possible consequences if the situation develops in this direction. It is hard to retrieve in the impartial attitude of the filmmakers but in our age of globalization where corporation control economy, political relat ion and even minds of people any chance should be used in order to bring fairness to people and filmmakers do their best in order to use it.What I really liked about the movie was a combination of different ways to influence the audience. Filmmakers combine data and statistics, which give food for thoughts with the emotional appeal to people, who watch the movie. Such a combination is more likely to target wagon and minds of people and these means that the authors will be successful in passing their message to the audience.BibliographyARCHBAR, M., ABBOTT, J. (2004) The Corporation. Big sketch Media.The CORPORATION OFFICIAL WEBSITE htt