Gross US & Canada
$3,493,516
Opening weekend US & Canada
$28,671
Gross worldwide
$4,605,682
The Corporation
"The Corporation" (The Corporation) , is a very thought-provoking of Documentary .
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- Release date June 4, 2004
- Filming locations Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Production companies Big Picture Media Corporation
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By Christiana 2022-12-20 16:48:16
The four major international grain merchants "ABCD":
ADM (Archer Daniels Midland), Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus. These four major grain merchants currently monopolize 80% of the global grain trading volume. They control the world's food import and export, food manufacturing and packaging, and price setting. For their own interests, they are inextricably linked with the political blocs of various countries, and a close interest group has been formed.
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By Melyssa 2022-12-11 21:47:11
From child labor and sweatshops to other
In this film, a lot of child labor and sweatshops are discussed. At first glance, it is quite reasonable. If you think about it carefully, it may not be.
Judging from the Walmart sweatshop incident, it is indeed nonsense to say that Walmart has no responsibility for the sweatshop at all, but if the responsibility lies only with a company like Walmart or Nike, it would be too rash judgment. Think about why Wal-Mart or Nike keep setting up factories overseas in order to keep costs down,... -
By Taya 2022-12-08 15:32:24
1. The power of a family cannot compete with the power of an industry that spends $1.2 billion to promote products. Talk to them now, maintain good relationships with them when they are young, and wait for them to grow up. , They become your consumers. I don’t know if this is ethical. Our job is to sell products.
2. The principle of excess. Instill the concept of need and let them focus on unnecessary consumption, such as fashion consumption.
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By Stone 2022-12-07 12:40:34
There is a lot of information that I haven’t heard before. Privatization develops fast, but too soon it will cause problems, and now the private ownership is approaching the extreme. At the same time, we have come from public ownership, and public ownership is not a solution to the problem. When I finally said that we have the ability to take control back from the big companies, I just thought, can we take it back? How to get it back? What should I do after taking it back? Human development has...
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By Jacklyn 2022-12-05 19:54:01
About the Water War: A Victory for the Poor
At ten o'clock in the morning, President Banzer imposed martial law on Bolivia. The protests have been going on for a week: strikes, traffic jams have brought the country to a complete standstill. The government had to back down, acceding to protesters' demands, to terminate the $2 million contract to sell the Cochabamba public water system to a foreign-invested company.
Citizens of Cochabamba demanded that Brecht, one of the foreign-invested companies, return the water system to the...
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By Lela 2023-09-09 10:30:10
The two-and-a-half-hour documentary has been watched from the exam week until I watched it today..... Most of the time was spent on stating the unbearable side of the "enterprise", which was too left-handed and unfair. However, the cutting of each paragraph is well done, and it can be used as a ppt template. The scholars who appear in the story are all very fanciful, especially the Indian woman with a red mole between her eyebrows, very...
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By Dedrick 2023-07-29 20:57:57
The idea of the structure, influence and social status of corporate (esp. MNC) is rooted in my mind by this film. But not a good film because it is not objective enough and not smart enough to provide a solutionable...
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By Retta 2023-07-23 17:14:12
not until enviromental conditions become commodities...
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By Devon 2023-07-21 10:00:21
It is difficult for documentaries to maintain a neutral attitude. Because the director is outside the system. Outside of the system, we can all play the role of a good person. In an evil system, it is difficult for us to avoid becoming monsters. This is the power of...
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By Greyson 2023-05-24 10:58:58
It’s too long, and it’s almost enough to condense it to the first 70 minutes. Some of the latter examples are so extreme that the theme of the whole film is not very clear, but I really envy this spiral mode of continuous struggle and...
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Narrator: Some of the best creative minds are employed to assure our faith in the corporate world view. They seduce us with beguiling illusions. Designed to divert our minds and manufacture our consent.
Richard Grossman: Corporations don't advertise products particularly; they're advertising a way of life. A way of thinking. A story of who we are as people and how we got here and what's the source of our so-called liberty, and so-called freedom. You know, so you have decades and decades and decades of propaganda and education teaching us to think in a certain way. When applied to the large corporation, it's that the corporation was inevitable, that it's indispensable, that it's somehow remarkably efficient, and that it's responsible for progress and the good life. They're selling themselves, they're selling their domination, they're selling they're rule, and they're creating an image for themselves, as just regular folks down the block. It's tough, you know, they're putting some taxpayer shareholder money into helping and who can say? But that money should be going to the taxpayers to decide what to do. And while they're doing these sorts of nice things, they're also playing a role in lowering taxes for corporations and lowering taxes for wealthy people, and reconfiguring public policy. And what we don't see is all that reconfiguring going on; we don't see all that vacuuming up of money, vacuuming out the insides of public processes, but we do see the nice facade.
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Naomi Klein: When I was researching the takeover of public space when I started off I thought, "Okay, this is just advertising. We've always had advertising. It's just more advertising". But what I started to understand and what I understand now is that branding is not advertising; it's production. The very successful corporations, the corporations of the future do not produce products. They produce brand meaning. The dissemination of the idea of themselves is their act of production. And the dissemination of the idea of themselves is an enormously invasive project, so how do you make a brand idea real? Well, a good place to start is by building a 3-dimensional manifestation of your brand. For a company like Disney, it goes even further where it's actually building a town: Celebration, Florida. Their inspiration, they're brand image is the all-American family. And this sort of bygone American town. And that's where you see the truly imperialist aspirations of branding, which is about building these privatised branded cocoons. Which maybe you start by shopping in and then you continue by holidaying in but eventually, "Why not just move in?"
Jeremy Rifkin: What happens if we wake up one day, and we find out that virutally all of our relationships that are mediated between us and our fellow human beings are commercial? We find out that virtually every relationship we have is a commercially arbitrated relationship with our fellow human beings. Can civilisation survive on that narrow a definition of how we interact with each other?
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Jeremy Rifkin: The Chakrabarty case is one of the great judicial moments in world history. And the public was totally unaware it was actually happening as a process was being engaged. General Electric and Professor Chakrabarty went to the patent office with a little microbe that eats up oil spills. They said they had modified this microbe in the laboratory, and therefore it was an invention. The patent office and the U.S. Government took at look at this "invention"; they said, 'No way. The patent statutes don't cover living things. This is not an invention". Turned down. Then, General Electric and Doctor Chakrabarty appealed to the U.S. Customs Court of Appeal. And, to everyone's surprise, by a 3-to-2 decision, they overrode the patent office. They said, 'This microbe looks more like a detergent, or a reagent, than a horse or a honeybee". I laugh because they didn't understand basic biology; it looked like a chemical to them. Had it had an antenna, or eyes, or wings, or legs, it would never have crossed their table and been patented. Then the patent office appealed. And what the public should realise now is the patent office was very clear that you can't patent life. My organisation provided the main amicus curiae brief. "If you allow the patent on this microbe," we argued, "it means that without any congressional guidance or public discussion, corporations will own the blueprints of life". When they made the decision, we lost by 5-to-4, and Chief Justice Warren Berger said, "Sure, some of these are big issues but we think this is a small decision". 7 Years later the U.S. Patent Office issued a 1 sentence decree, "You can patent anything in the world that's alive, except a full-birth human being". We've all been hearing about the announcement that we have mapped the human genome. But what the public doesn't know is now there's this great race by genomic companies and biotech companies and life science companies to find the treasure in the map. The treasure are the individual genes that make up the blueprint of the human race. Every time they capture a gene and isolate it, these biotech companies claim it as intellectual property. The breast cancer gene, the cystic fibrosis gene, it goes on and on and on. If this goes unchallenged in the world community within less than 10 years a handful of global companies will own, directly, or through license, the actual genes that make up the evolution of our species. And they're now beginning to patent the genomes of every other creature on this planet. In the age of biology the politics is going to sort out between those who believe life first has intrinsic value, and therefore we should choose technologies and commercial venues that honour the intrinsic value. And then we're going to have people who believe, "Look, life is a simple utility, it's commercial fare", and they will line up with the idea to let the marketplace be the ultimate arbiter of all of the age of biology.
