One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. It is the dominant institution of our time. A complex, sobering, yet darkly amusing documentary, The Corporation takes its audience on a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the corporation's inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. Mark Achbar, co-director of the influential and inventive Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, teams up with co-director Jennifer Abbott and writer Joel Bakan to examine the far-reaching repercussions of the corporation's ascent. Based on Bakan's best-selling book, "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power", the film has achieved international critical and box office success. Winner of 10 audience awards, including Sundance, and 26 awards in total from prestigious festivals around the world, it stands as the top-grossing Canadian feature documentary of all time. The Corporation includes encounters and interviews with CEOs and top-level executives from a range of industries: energy, pharmaceutical, computer, tire, carpet, sporting goods, public relations, branding, news, advertising, and undercover marketing, as well as the first management guru, the first corporate-sponsored university students, a Nobel-prize winning economist, a corporate spy, and a range of academics, critics, historians and thinkers. The Corporation reveals that legally, a corporation is granted the status of a "person", and asks: "If that's the case, what kind of person is it?" To assess the "personality" of the corporate "person," a checklist is employed, using diagnostic criteria of the World Health Organization and the DSM IV, the standard diagnostic tool of psychiatrists and psychologists. It turns out the operational principles of the corporation give it a highly anti-social "personality": it is self-interested, inherently amoral, callous and deceitful; it breaches social and legal standards to get its way; it does not suffer from guilt, yet it can mimic the human qualities of empathy, caring and altruism. A disturbing diagnosis is delivered: the institutional embodiment of laissez-faire capitalism meets the diagnostic criteria of a psychopath. The Corporation depicts numerous, inspiring, corporate harm reduction strategies employed by individuals and organizations working to regulate, re-write and reform this formidable societal force.
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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A little ironicYou know.. this movie used to be free. thanks, iTunes..Score: 5/5
MUST SEE!This is truly an excellent documentary. The director was kind enough to post it on you tube to watch for free. I liked it so much, that I am definitely going to either donate money to this movie or buy it. the only criticism I could give this film, is that it felt sometimes that they jumped around with the topics/information. This wasn't a major point of contention. For the majority of the film I felt as though it all flowed together seamlessly. If I could sum this up in one word: Enlightening..Score: 5/5
MUST SEE !!!!Informative, witty, and well casted documentary. Giving a clear understanding and direction to the underpinnings of the modern corporation. Diverse viewpoints illustrate the social and ecological devastation that come about when a group of people with a "bottom-line" mentality form a corporation..Score: 5/5
Collection of whinersNot worth the price of admission. just a collection of ranting rather than proposing. come on people. we'd be 3rd world if it were not for corporations. few are bad, most are good. the real problem are lawyers. get rid of them and michael moore. teach positiveness not negative whining..Score: 2/5
The solutionImportant movie, very accurate description of the problem. Of course they have no clue what to do about it, as the guy says at the end "I'm just hoping people will get off the sofa and do…ummm anything". In other words no plan. That won't work. The solution isn't very difficult to understand. The corporation has to be placed under the control of humanity, rather than humanity under the control of the corporation. That simply involves re-writing all the laws. The government which could write the laws however is controlled by the corporation. Which means revolution, bloodshed is the only path to success here. Humans however still don't grasp there is a war on against them and remain largely confused by the corporate propaganda..Score: 5/5
The Corporation is not humanThis is a must see film to help people better understand the pros and cons of the corporate entity...not the people behind it, but rather the infrastructure of one of the most powerful man-made forces on earth. Highly enlightening..Score: 3/5
Another broadside at globalization...This title is misleading. Instead of being focused on the corporation, the movie quickly devolves into a sometimes interesting but in the end unpersuasive attack on globalization writ large. The usual suspects are attacked for the usual reasons... there is a bit of insight into why a corporation might be a particular problem in our society, but the producers/writers choose not to delve too deeply into an issue that I guess might be too dry for their target audience. I was really hoping to gain a deeper understanding of how the facets of the corporate structure impact our lives but instead I spent two hours enduring another disappointing one-sided rant against all things capitalist and that is too bad since I think there is much fertile ground to be plowed when it comes to discussing the problems that corporations can cause society. Not saying there arent valid points within the movie, but chances are if you stay abreast of current events and are educated then this movie will not prove very stimulating..Score: 2/5
The most important movie you'll ever seeIf you watch any documentary, watch this one. It's more valuable of an education than anything you'd ever find in a classroom. Revealing startling and disturbing facts about our world, nation and society, The Corporation is enough to get you and even apathetics out of your seat and wanting to know,do, and say more to fix the problems highlighted. Watch it!.Score: 5/5
THE CORPERATIONComplete everybodys out to get you conspiratorial nonsence. SOCIALIST GARBAGE!.Score: 1/5
MovingI am SO glad this movie wasn't available for renting and that I actually bought it. I found it both moving & inspiring..Score: 5/5
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