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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Purchase/Rental Options Are Grayed Out - CanI want to buy this movie (The Corporation) but both the Purchase and Rental options are grayed out, making them inaccessible links. Please advise. I LOVE this movie! It confirms what I've suspected about the corporate model for a long time. Having worked in both large corporate offices and a large university clinical psychology training program, I could relate with the personality test setting for a review of a corporate "person's" mental state. Although the "person" implied in "personhood" is actually made up of lots of different people, each with their own agenda and personal issues, it's a good illustration of the non-sensical "personhood status" granted to corporations. But not all of today's corporations are sociopaths. It would be an interesting contrast to apply the same testing situation to the corporations listed in "The 100 Best Companies to Work For in America." Does being a great place to work also mean they treat their clients and the rest of society better? PS: How do I retrieve a movie that was lost from my iTunes library when I shared my library with my husband's. Everything else was just copied and sent, but one movie was actually moved to his computer. (We're no longer together.) I paid for it and would like it back. Thanks. (Can't find anywhere else to ask this specific question.).Score: 5/5
Great movieThis movie is meant to show the need for regulation in business. People who are saying this movie wants to destroy business are missing the true point of this movie. Must see..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
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
Scare tacticsScare tactics to replace free markets with corrupt government. No thanks. Businesses can't FORCE you to work for them, buy from them, or invest in them. Only government can force people, at the point of a gun, to do anything..Score: 1/5
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
Capitalism??No, no.... corporations are almost entirely subsidized - the government is the reason big corporations exist. This is the skeleton in the closet of liberal American politic..Score: 1/5
Pablumistic Approach to a Complex TopicAnother one sided progressive (e.g. left) documentary limited by its ability to juxtapose the positive and negative impacts of a corporation. This could have been a fantastic documentary if it was not so one sided. Yes, many bad corporations abound (I despise Monsanto and the oil companies) but how do the producers attibute the overall increase in US per capita net worth and productivity during the same period of explosive corporate growth? Scant on hard data (very touchy feely) but did do a good job on highighting the government-corporate axis of evil..Score: 1/5
If you do not want to buy check your library or your local video store....Dear people, This is a must see movie and if you don't want to buy it, get it at your library for free! Sometimes it takes calling one or more libraries to see who has it but come on... its FREEE. Also it is available to rent at most of the video stores, maybe you just aren't looking hard enough - its okay to ask questions if you can't find something!! i'm just trying to tell you all that you have to see this movie and anyway you can get your hands on it just do it! The download on itunes is only 9.99 thats way cheap if you ask me!!.Score: 5/5
THE CORPERATIONComplete everybodys out to get you conspiratorial nonsence. SOCIALIST GARBAGE!.Score: 1/5
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