http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pin8fbdGV9Y&feature=PlayList&p=FA50FBC214A6CE87&index=0

Follow the above link and you will find the 2003 documentary simply named The Corporation. It took 8 years to make, including 3 years of raising enough money to make it. Before I never really thought much about the so called “corporations”. I always, as you may do now, thought of it as a “hippy” thing, but this was only really because I didn’t understand it. The Corporation features interviews with CEOs, investigative journalists and even spies. It also features footage which can be found at www.archive.org/and used for free. Over the course of the film, it looks at the many aspects of corporations, from the definition fo the word, to the corruption of the media and the worldwide spread of these corporations to developing countries. After reading the title, I was put off watching it, but pressed on anyway and sat motionless throughout the entire film.Thankfully, The Corporation does not succumb to the fateful one sided story telling so many documentaries blindly walk into nowadays, and allows people speaking on behalf of the corporations in question to state their, and their company’s, view.

The most shocking thing is it’s all true, and it still goes on today, and it affects everyone of us.

I found the most ironic thing that happened while watching that movie on Youtube was that adverts popped up on the screen. When they were saying about Bechtel trying to privatize Bolivian water, an advert popped up: “Cheap Flights to Bolivia”. I had just finished my Fanta Orange as Michael Moore said “when you drink Forange, you’re drinking the Nazi drink” after revealing the only reason for Fanta Orange’s creation was so that Coca Cola could benefit from Nazi Germany.

In Britain as well, we see the effects of American corporations. I felt they should’ve explored, as it is a movie, Hollywood, product placement and the worldwide film industry in more depth. It’s guaranteed that in the average American and Briton’s life time, 95% of the films they see will be made by American or British film companies (even Slumdog Millionaire is British!), even though combined they make up 6.66% of the world’s land. However I wasn’t disappointed in anyway by this documentary. I was completely taken by surprise by the stories given by the not-silhouetted interviewees which include the acclaimed Michael Moore, currently working on a similar film, who gives the last word.

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