Corporations are psychopaths. No, really. The documentary film The Corporation makes this bold assertion and a few more.
Not only are they legally considered to be individual, on a diagnosis checklist, they check every box.
“They would have all the characteristics,” says Dr. Robert Hare, consultant to the FBI on psychopaths.
The film’s narrator questions, “if the dominant institution of our time has been created in the image of a psychopath, who bears the moral responsibility for its actions?”
These tough, not to mention politically charged questions, give this documentary it’s chutzpah.
Many consumers take the corporation for granted in daily life, spending their routine days drinking Starbucks coffee, filling up with Chevron gasoline, and cooking Rice-A-Roni (the San Francisco treat!) for their families.
Little thought may go into where the product comes from and most of all, at what cost.
The film does a thorough job of bringing significant evidence to light that could sway an average consumer to rethink their consumption habits.
“I’m driving my truck through this incredible flaw in capitalism, the greed flaw,” Moore asserts of his success in liberal “leftist” documentary film. “The thing that says ‘the rich man will sell you the rope to hang himself.”
Unfortunately for the "conscious" consumer, the film does little more than present a "singing to the choir" kind of mindset.
The "prognosis" as the film coins as the last of many chapters, is that there is indeed hope. Well, there better be. Otherwise most folks (especially those first being exposed to such information) might return home after the 2 1/2 hour cinematic “downer,” to abruptly end their newly informed lives.
Luckily the film features many of the country's intelligently interesting people: the late Howard Zinn, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Moore, along with many others.
Bottom line: worth a viewing, especially if you can get someone opposed to seeing it to watch it with you.
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