Movie catch-up
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progSaw "The Smartest Guys in the Room" a coupla weeks ago. Or maybe it was one week ago. Anyway, enjoyed. It's a smart, straightforward and brutal documentary about the Enron scandal. Learned a lot. Go see it. I caught it at the Kendall but it'll be out on video soon, surely.
Reminded that I never got around to seeing "The Corporation" so I rented it later. Liked, though not nearly as much. It makes no bones about being a piece with an agenda, and as such it the message feels forced, in places. The best parts speak for themselves, like the time spent with the guy who helps raise advocacy about the plight of third-world sweatshop workers (who make first-world clothes).
At the same time, I rented the 1992 David Lynch flick "Fire Walk with Me", the "Twin Peaks" prequel, because it was there, and I've never seen it, even though I was a TP fanboy back in the day. (Well, given my situation at the time, I guess it's no shocker I missed it in the theater, and I suppose I just hadn't thought on it much since then.)
I just finished watching it. I'm glad I did; it was a treat, though the chocolate was poisonous, and perhaps hollow. On a visual level, a delightfully malevolent phantasmagoria. And, nice to see some old TV friends, unexpectedly, one last time. I'm not certain it worked as a stand-alone movie. No, I'm pretty sure it didn't.
Surprised to discover that The Man From Another Place (a.k.a. The Dwarf) has appeared on the boob tube more recently as Samson from Carnivále. Now I'm sad about that show all over again.
I liked that the entire FBI office that Cooper worked in was portrayed as a bunch of whackjobs, like it was their Special Kooky Investigation Whee Whee Unit.
Reminded that I never got around to seeing "The Corporation" so I rented it later. Liked, though not nearly as much. It makes no bones about being a piece with an agenda, and as such it the message feels forced, in places. The best parts speak for themselves, like the time spent with the guy who helps raise advocacy about the plight of third-world sweatshop workers (who make first-world clothes).
At the same time, I rented the 1992 David Lynch flick "Fire Walk with Me", the "Twin Peaks" prequel, because it was there, and I've never seen it, even though I was a TP fanboy back in the day. (Well, given my situation at the time, I guess it's no shocker I missed it in the theater, and I suppose I just hadn't thought on it much since then.)
I just finished watching it. I'm glad I did; it was a treat, though the chocolate was poisonous, and perhaps hollow. On a visual level, a delightfully malevolent phantasmagoria. And, nice to see some old TV friends, unexpectedly, one last time. I'm not certain it worked as a stand-alone movie. No, I'm pretty sure it didn't.
Surprised to discover that The Man From Another Place (a.k.a. The Dwarf) has appeared on the boob tube more recently as Samson from Carnivále. Now I'm sad about that show all over again.
I liked that the entire FBI office that Cooper worked in was portrayed as a bunch of whackjobs, like it was their Special Kooky Investigation Whee Whee Unit.
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Date: 2005-06-27 06:52 pm (UTC)Reminded that I never got around to seeing "The Corporation" so I rented it later. Liked, though not nearly as much. It makes no bones about being a piece with an agenda, and as such it the message feels forced, in places.
I just wish they'd complete the trilogy with "The Party" and "The NGO". They could do pretty much exactly the same thing with political parties as they did with corporations, lumping them all together as if they were a single entity and tracing their development from tentative associations of "friends" in the 1700's to the ossified juggernauts of the present day. Then in the final chapter they could follow the birth of the NGO from movements like the abolitionists and suffragettes to the modern post-war organizations.
The same question applies: "If the Party/NGO were a person, what kind of person would it be?" The value of this approach is that it focusses on the nature of that type of human organization, rather than any one particular instance of it. Unfortunately for their agenda, I think they'll find that political parties and NGOs share many of the unsavoury attributes that corporations have.
--Tom