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"The Big
One" Dog Eat Dog Films MichaelMoore.com
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Michael Moore, "America's Corporate Avenger" as the New York Times referred to him, filmed this movie with a couple of his friends and fellow film geeks while on the promotional tour for his best-selling book, "Downsize This! Random Threats From an Unarmed American". As he traveled, he found that nearly every city he went to had experienced extraordinary amounts of worker layoffs with catastrophic effects on the communities. Justifiably upset with the fact that these layoffs all occurred while these same corporations were making record profits, and often risking arrest, he also did his best along the way to bitch-slap the corporations responsible for this state of affairs with his usual sense of irreverence and downright silliness. If you can't beat 'em, at least ridicule 'em! His encounter with Nike CEO Phil Knight is priceless. Watching him pry a mere $10,000 for education out of the hands of this billionaire shows in the most personal terms the root of the problem in Corporate America. Voluntary ignorance and naked greed. |
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"The Corporation" Zeitgeist Video
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Since the late 18th century American legal
decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a
person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around
the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the
organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates
is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a
dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see
the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but
also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to
stop it.
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