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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Collective previews the most important film of the year. You may not know it, but you are living in a world that’s being run into oblivion by an inhuman entity. From birth we are brainwashed to live as clone-like grubs, ready to be manipulated any way the superpower decrees. The rise in cancer, global warming and human suffering on a massive scale are all by-products of its thirst. This isn’t sci-fi, it’s actually happening. In common parlance, the monster is known as The Corporation. The film of that name is a two-and-a-half-hour textbook deconstruction of the modus operandi of the man-made atrocity, now running totally out of control. While these ideas won’t be new to anyone who's ever brushed up against those woolly-jumpered pamphleteers who hang out round tube stations and student unions, The Corporation offers a much needed rational take on the shit we’re all in.  The Corporation In the mid-19th Century, the corporation was granted legal status as a “person”, allowing businessmen and women to come together under one banner to make a ton of money. And the inevitable diagnosis of the corporation as a “person” - legally obliged to put profit above responsibility - is that we’re dealing with one big scary psychopath. Stories of child labour, privatized rainwater in Bolivia, chemical pollutants, links between synthetically produced milk and cancer in The States, compromised news broadcasters like Fox, and on and on and on, are the stuff of pure terror. To illustrate this there’s a visually electric mix of archive footage, animation and case studies, while interviews with the likes of Michael Moore, socialist thinkers Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein and capitalist giants such as Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, former chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, revitalise the globalisation debate.  The Corporation To emphasise the dehumanised principles our society is now run by, a computerised voice narrates the story of man’s demise in pursuit of the buck, in placid tones. But this is one movie with its finger firmly pushing the emergency alarm. For once you should believe the hype, you need to see this.
Skye Sherwin
The Corporation, on selected release 29 October 04. Watch this space for interviews and clips nearer the release date.
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