This film put me in a confused state. I’ve tried starting this 4 times now, because the right words aren’t coming to me, so I’ll settle with words that are coming to me. This film made me feel defeated. I didn’t feel hopeful or provoked, or angered or even sad. Maybe that’s because the material is content I’ve heard before. Specifics were new and interesting, but most of it was stuff I’ve been aware of. In watching it, I just kept thinking, what does one do with this info? Now that I’ve seen this, what do I do? I felt like there isn’t much to do. I don’t feel like there’s anything I can do to stop massive corporations from pursuing capitalism. It’s the foundation of the country.
Corporations have money and can afford to higher expensive people. Those people will take advantage of those who aren’t as smart or as financially secure to take advantage of them. This has been going on since the beginning of time. It hasn’t changed, so will it ever change? If it were to change, would it change because of an individual like me, or someone from within? I’m leaning toward the second. Virtually 70 perfect of the US’s population have no say in the change of it’s own government. So, if it’s almost impossible to change the government, which is public, how could I affect private corporate business without government backing?
Some of the tactics used by the artist to get us to engage with the dialogue was to attempt to resonate with us as people. Expose humanity and vulnerability. For example, sharing footage of their home, their work life, their family, their friends, very informally, and objectively exposing us to the life these people live. I believe this was supposed to tug on my heart strings. It did, even though I have a sinister heartless tone. I have this tone because there’s no solution I can create.
The most effective tactic for me, was seeing how working in the factories was causing burn marks on the skin, birth defects and irritations. That exposed the toxicity of the work environment in a tangible way.
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