I.

INTRODUCTORY PART
The corporation investigates the nature and astonishing ascent of the preeminent institution
of our time in a way that is provocative, humorous, stylish, and sweepingly informative. The
Corporation, a film and a movement, has been influencing viewers and astounded critics with
its perceptive and persuasive critique for more than ten years.
The Corporation features interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics, including Noam
Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva, and Michael Moore, as
well as true confessions, case studies, and strategies for change. Taking its status as a legal
"person" to the logical conclusion, the movie places the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch
to ask, "What kind of person is it?". The book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of
Profit and Power by Joel Bakan served as the inspiration for the movie.

II. HISTORICAL ACCURACY

It was a documentary. There's a difference between something being inaccurate and being
misleading The Political Commentator, Anne Coulter, wrote a book in the Early in the 2000's
where, always she take target at the liberal media not being in tune with mainstream
Americans. One pages, she talks about the death of NASCAR racing legend Dale Earnhardt and
how major paper didn't put it on the front page. Then she begins some complaints about the
New York Times. Anyone reading the book would assume the paper that 'skipped' Earnhardt
was the eldest times. But that was not the case, the New York Times featured Earnhardt's death
on the front page. It was the high conservative Miami Herald that skipped him. Coulter was
banking on the prejudice of her readers to make a leap where Coulter wanted them to make.
Even today, with copies of newspapers from that day, just wave it off. So, easy it's to read
something by how facts are presented and in particularly order. The Business Plot against FDR
was half-witted and all the key information hidden that we don't know what really happened.
Another one was IBM and the Holocaust. Thomas Watson Sr was not a Nazi. And he was not
antisemitic.

III. RELIABILITY OF THE SOURCES USED

This documentary film is based on the nonfiction book by law professor Joel Bakan, The
Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. Like the book, the film maintains
that modern Corporations are driven by the motive to generate profits for shareholders,
regardless of how this affects the interests of workers, society, or the environment. The
corporation, in fact, is so driven by self-interest and financial greed that it fits the personality
profile of a psychopathic individual. The film focuses on a select number of areas in which
corporations have cause damage, including child labor, low wages, manipulative advertising,
unhealthy foods, and environmental damage. The film juxtaposes comments by politically
liberal activists with those by morally cynical defenders of the corporate status quo.
 IV. THE USAGE OF CREATIVE ELEMENTS
This extraordinary documentary is based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological
Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004) by law professor Joel Bakan (see my review at Amazon).
Bakan's thesis is that the corporation is a psychopathic entity. In his book he notes that the
modern corporation is "singularly self-interested and unable to feel genuine concern for others
in any context." (p. 56) He adds that the corporation's sole reason for being is to enhance the
profits and power of the corporation. He shows by citing court cases that it is the duty of
management to make money and that any compromise with that duty is dereliction of duty.
Directors Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott bring these points and a slew of others to cinematic
life through interviews, archival footage, and a fine narrative written by Achbar and Harold
Crooks. The interviews cover a wide spectrum of opinion, from Michael Moore and Noam
Chomsky on the left, to Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman on the right. Friedman
is heard to agree with Bakan that the corporation's duty is to its stockholders and that anything
that deviates from that duty is irresponsible.

V. YOUR OPINION OF THE FILM

Although a corporation is viewed as a human with a conscience, it is one with a dark

side that seeks to leave a trail of destruction, whenever it goes out on a profit-making initiative.
Incidentally, it does not regret having done wrong as an average person does. For the most
part, corporations aspire to make maximum income per unit of input used in the production
process. From The Corporation documentary review it is evident that employees know that
they are not free to do as they please, as pointed out by Sam Gibara, former CEO and chairman
of Good Year Tires (Achbar, Abbot: The Corporation).

As shown in the film, corporations will go to the extent of making even the tragedy of
others a business venture, in total disregard of what befalls others as recounted by Carlton
Brown (Achbar, Abbot: The Corporation). It is noted in the documentary that corporations have
made profits out of everything, including those that are essential to human life.

VI. SUMMARIZING THE WHOLE ANALYSIS

This documentary begins with an unusual detail that came from the 14th Amendment:
Under constitutional law, corporations are seen as individuals. So, filmmaker Mark Achbar asks,
what type of person would a corporation be? The evidence, according to such political activists
as Noam Chomsky and filmmaker Michael Moore and company heads like carpet magnate Ray
Anderson, points to a bad one, as the film aims to expose IBM's Nazi ties and these large
businesses' exploitation of human rights.