BS: Sundance masterpiece.

Subject: RE: BS: Sundance masterpiece.
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 02:53 PM

that "one great moment" were the patent files on individuals DNA in a vast record room.

GE was the first corporation to patent life forms. which at the time were new varients of e coli that they hoped would help cows digest stuff like saw dust. IT didn;t work, the cows exploded instead BUT the door was open to patent any and all life from DNA all the way up to entire organisms and animals - the one exception the court made was "A fully born human being"!

Subject: RE: BS: Sundance masterpiece.
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 02:07 PM

Someone was telling me Jim Broadbent did good at Sundance with Longford.

Subject: RE: BS: Sundance masterpiece.
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 12:50 PM

This is a film I will watch if I get the chance, although I seriously doubt some of its conclusions. How does anyone own your DNA? Kind of reminds me of when a foreign body 'owns' something in the US- when push comes to shove, the US property is still in the US, subject to closure or confiscation.

Here is one Review


"I think The Corporation is a good movie, and I think it's an important one; but it isn't a great movie. It could have been if the filmmakers were more disciplined or more focused, and willing to let the audience draw its own conclusions. Watching this film is like listening to an impassioned preacher deliver a long sermon; you enjoy the sermon, you mostly agree with what you hear, but eventually you just become worn out. The preaching just goes on and on and on. You just want to wrap things up, and the minister keeps pulling out another three chapters to read.

"Perhaps the overall tone of the film brought this about. The Corporation serves as a laundry list of corporate abuses and crimes in the name of relentless profits, and the damage wrought over the past century. We see Bovine Growth Hormones, pollution of land, air, and water, third world sweatshop labor, cruelty to animals, chemicals on the farms, chemicals in our hair, chemicals in our food, strip-mining, fossil fuels that cause global warming, genetic manipulation, genetic mutations, birth defects, the explosion of cancer.

"We learn the history of corporations, from its humble roots to the infamous Supreme Court decision, argued in the name of the then-new 14th Amendment to the Constitution, that declared a corporation a legal person. Only these persons have resources far beyond any of us, um, people. And we witness global corporations evolve into the fiefdoms and robber barons of our time, looting resources, abusing workers, and always obsessed with profit, profit, profit.

"One great moment – visually the best moment in the film – shows a stack of legal documents in an office. The camera pulls back, and it slowly reveals row after row of boxes and documents. The room becomes a warehouse, and its sheer size overwhelms you. The rows of shelves just go on and on.

"You watch all the evidence, and you listen to CEO's, activists, and progressive heroes like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomski, and you end up feeling, well, helpless. The mood of The Corporation is almost one of despair. There's that sadness and anger you felt when watching Fahrenheit, but this time you feel so much smaller, almost helpless. What else can you feel when you realize that a handful of international businesses will soon own the DNA to all human life, and then all life on Earth? When you confront poisons in our food, mass extinctions, and global warming, you have to wonder if we even have a future."

Subject: RE: BS: Sundance masterpiece.
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 11:59 AM

No wonder, the film was made in Canada.

Subject: RE: BS: Sundance masterpiece.
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 11:32 AM

OMG

I knew only a grain of sand of the beach covered in this documentary.

This may be the most subversive film I have ever seen.

Subject: RE: BS: Sundance masterpiece.
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 11:26 AM

I did not know that Bechtel Corporation now owns all the rainwater in Bolivia. People were prevented by law from collecting rainwater in buckets. When they demonstrated they were mutilated and even killed.

I did know that corporations now own your DNA (if you have ever given blood for any reason)
If you are lucky enough to have the delta 32 gene you are prevented by law from delivering that gene to your own children if they did have it, without paying a corporation who owns the patent to YOUR genes.

They also covered the lawsuit a small group of FOX reporters brought against the FOX news service for refusing to lie as ordered bvy FOX regarding the actions of Monsanto's monstorus practice in poisoning milk.
The court found that it is not illegal to knowlingly lie regarding news.

Subject: BS: Sundance masterpiece.
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 11:01 AM

A 2005 film is beng shown on the Sundance channel now

It is called 'Corporation' 146 min.

To me it is a masterpiece and exemplifies all the issues that have made me who I am and has warped most of the people I know.

A short segment listed all the symptoms of a psychopath and then demonstrated how each symptom is standard operating procedure for virtually all huge corporations.

There is also much I did not know in the film.

One warning however, one should have a strong stomach and a hopeful heart to watch this film without weeping in despair.