Film Forum - Second of the films on climate change in the STOP! series, followed by a debate.The Corporation, based on the book "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), is directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbot, about the ruthless world of big business.
The Corporation is a documentary about corporate law. Sounds boring, but not when you have talking heads like Michael Moore and Milton Friedman. It’s a polemic film, biased but cutting.
The corporation, viewed metaphorically, is a sociopath – a "human" monster that consumes everything in its quest for power, for growth, for money. Viewing this monster, one can't help but be sickened. The commercial atrocities on display (Hitler and Coca-Cola, the destruction of the Amazon) all help to reinforce the hypothesis that corporations are bad, bad, bad. This is a work as acerbic as it is scholarly, as provocative as enlightening. We see the environmental tolls, the Machiavellian unethical practices, and above all the almost anti-human greed.
Film begins at 9 p.m. (Free)
8:30 p.m. - Soup is served (3.5 € for soup and bread)
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