Fast Food Nation Movie
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TAGLINES
The Truth Is Hard To Swallow
Do you want lies with that?
The film everybody is sinking their teeth into
Are we what we eat?
Don Anderson (Greg Kinnear) is the Mickey's food restaurant chain's Marketing Director. He is the inventor of the "Big One" the hamburger best seller of Mickey's. An independent research reports the presence of cow's feces in the Big One. So Don is sent to Cody, Colorado, to verify if the slaughterhouse, main supplier of Mickey's, is efficient as it appears and the production process is regular. During his investigations he discovers the horrible truth behind a simple hamburger; the reality is not like we think it is. Don discovers that the mass production system involves from the temp workers like Amber (Ashley Jonhson), to the exploitation of Mexican irregular immigrants. It is not only the meat that is crush in the mincing machine, but all our society.
| Wilmer Valderrama | Raul |
| Catalina Sandino Moreno | Sylvia |
| Ana Claudia Talancón | Coco |
| Juan Carlos Serrán | Esteban |
| Armando Hernández | Roberto |
| Greg Kinnear | Don Anderson |
| Frank Ertl | Jack |
| Michael D. Conway | Phil |
| Mitch Baker | Dave |
| Ellar Salmon | Jay Anderson |
| Dakota Edwards | Stevie Anderson |
| Dana Wheeler-Nicholson | Debi Anderson |
| Luis Guzmán | Benny |
| Bobby Cannavale | Mike |
| Francisco Rosales | Jorge |
| Richard Linklater |
6.30 out of 10 (7998 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Cattle of Cows and People and Industry of Food
posted on 30 Aug 2009In California, the VP of Marketing of the Mickey's Fast Food Don Anderson (Greg Kinnear) is responsible for the hamburger "Big One", the number one in selling in Mickey's chain of fast food restaurants. When an independent research in the meat patties produced in Cody, Colorado, indicates the presence of cow manure, Don is sent to the facility to investigate possible irregularities in the meatpacking production plant and also the major supplier of cattle. Along his surveys, Don finds the truth about the process and how meat is contaminated. Meanwhile, a group of illegal Mexican immigrants arrive in Cody to work in the dirty jobs in the plant while a group of activists plot how to expose the terrible situation of the Mickey's industry."Fast Food Nation" has a promising beginning, giving an expectation of a strong message against the fast food industry and the exploitation of illegal immigrants in USA. Unfortunately in a certain moment the story becomes a shallow drama, losing the focus on the cattle of cows, people treated like cattle and the process of manufacturing industrialized meat, never going deeper in these issues. In this regard, "Super Size Me" is much more effective, showing the effects of fast food in the human body. I believe this theme would be tailored for Michael Moore, and I did not like this work of Richard Linklater. There are many pointless cameo appearances of famous actors, like for example the characters of Ethan Hawke or Bruce Willis, maybe to show how popular this director is in Hollywood. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Nação Fast Food" ("Fast Food Nation")
Hits the high points of the book in docudrama style
posted on 25 Aug 2009Fast Food Nation spends almost two hours attempting to give audiences their fill of the Fast Food industry, from almost every angle possible. But even two hours isn't enough to clearly and cohesively cover all the bases. There's just too much information and plot to be fed to the audience.
All the acting is top-notch, and it's surprising how many big names pop up for a short cameo, proving both the respect that Richard Linklater has earned with his career, and the importance of the message that the film is putting out there. The entire production feels a bit rushed, though. Sometimes the transitions between the multiple story-lines aren't as clean as they could be.
There are so many plotlines and so many noteworthy actors involved, it's difficult to even begin addressing any specifics. Basically we see into the lives of a illegal immigrants working in meat-packing plants, a rancher who speaks briefly about immenint domain (since part of this was filme din Austin, perhaps making reference to the Trans-Texas Corridor being discussed), some teenage fast food workers, and top executives in the marketing of fast food.
Ultimately, the film does serve the purpose of igniting conversations around the topic of fast food and the production of fast food. The difference between the movie and the book of the same name (by Eric Schlosser), however, is that while the book brings up issues and lays down facts to answer any questions that may arise, the movie is clearly a work of fiction, so any issues brought up are more open to debate without providing real accounts to back up the claims being made. The movie is the fast food version of the book. Quicker and easier to take in, but less fulfilling.
The special features are lengthy and well-thoughtout. The Meatrix, a short flash animation comparing the world of the Matrix to the world that grocery consumers live in when they imagine where their food comes from, is included (as well as the Meatrix 2 and 2 1/2). There's a fairly lengthy "making of" featurette that speaks to the issue of the film production being rushed. And there's feature commentary by Richard Linklater and Eric Schlosser.
There's sh*t in the meat.
posted on 24 Aug 2009It doesn't matter that there was a boatload of stars in this film; it is the story that counts.When i saw the dude spit on the hamburger, I know I was in for trouble.It is sad to see how the exec sold out and just went along to protect his livelihood when he knew there was something wrong going on.I lived nine years next to these CAFOs - Controlled Animal Feed Operations. The flies were so bad that you could not go out at night. This was in town! When those West Texas winds whipped across the prairies in the Summer, you knew that wasn't dirt getting in your mouth. 50 pounds of p*ss and sh*t a day from each cow. Where i lived, we fed one million cows a year - 25% of the beef sold in the country. That's a lot of sh*t! The conditions in the meat packing plants were true. We had them and they did have constant accidents due to pushing the lines. It is a shame that we have people risking their lives to get these kinds of jobs because it makes their lives so much better.Bruce Willis says to just cook it and you'll be all right. I am not so sure anymore.
Very, very effective!!
posted on 23 Aug 2009Fast Food Nation didn't make me a vegetarian. I guess I'm like most people: when it comes down to the dirty details, I'd rather not know. Like war, no one wants to see a bunch of dead and maimed soldiers. To have an idea of something is one thing: to actually know, see, and understand that thing is quite another. We hear about illegal workers coming into this country, and we hear about subhuman slaughterhouse conditions--all of these things we hear about in abstract. But seeing these issues in a specific context enables us to understand these issues.
Fast Food Nation is a fabric of interwoven threads. The film opens in a dark alley in a U.S. border town in Mexico. Smugglers collect fees from a small group of poor Mexicans. The scene shifts from Mexico to the corporate offices of Mickey's Burgers in Anaheim California. The CEO of Mickey's Burgers has a problem: a culture test found high levels of fecal matter in their frozen patties. The CEO sends an executive--played by Greg Kinnear--to trace the source of the infection. The film shifts back to Mexico. Smugglers process a bunch of poor Mexicans through a labyrinth of sleazy motels and packed vans. Eventually, the Mexicans cross the border into the U.S. and wind up in a grimy drop house. Here, the supervisor of a meat processing plant--a tall sticky-looking white male--looks over the human livestock. He waves a casual finger around the walls and the floor selecting the strongest males and the most attractive females.
A couple of new hires are led through the meat processing plant. The floors and walls are spotless and glowing. The employees' uniforms are snow-white. The new hires receive their white shiny hard-hats, their white shiny aprons, and take their places at the receiving end of the production line--the last stage of the meat processing line; the kill-floor is the first stage of the meat processing line. Another plot-thread involves a teenage girl named Amber who works at one of the Mickey Burger chains. She's bright and intelligent. She has a lot of potential, but she's afraid to leave Mickey Burgers because it is her first job. Back at the meat processing plant, there's drama at the slicing section of the production line: jealousy. A couple of female line-workers strive for the affection and favoritism of the line-manager. The females use their bodies to negotiate favors from the line-manager. In another plot-thread, a group of young Eco-activists sublimate their frustrations against animal abuse by freeing cows from the ranch that supplies the meat processing plant. But when the gates to those filthy pens fly open, the cows--with dung and urine clinging to their legs--refuse to leave. The activists kick and yell at the cows, but the content animals remain in the filthy pen where they'll eventually be slaughtered and transformed into Mickey Burgers.
Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis, Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Luis Guzman, etc., all performed well in this underrated film from 2006.
Richard Linklater and Eric Schlosser, who authored the bestselling expose of the same title, co-wrote Fast Food Nation. Linklater is one of my favorite directors; his films are both brainy and entertaining. The disparate elements of Fast Food Nation--illegal immigration, animal abuse, sexual abuse, corporate greed and irresponsibility, etc.--converge into a grisly and powerful metaphor on the consequences of fear and complacency. In many ways, humans and cows have much in common. This is a great film with an important message. I highly recommend it.
author of Gotta Be Down!
Underated Gem!
posted on 19 Aug 2009I really liked this film that has the effect of a documentary and makes one think not only about not eating in fast food restaurants but maybe being vegetarian instead. Great cameos by Bruce Willis and Ethan Hawke. The young Colombian actress from Maria Full of Grace has one of the main parts. Canadian singer Avril Lavigne has a small part and does an excellent job too!
The directing is similar to the movie Crash with the director cutting back and forth between three main stories that tend to overlap in parts of the film. There is the Marketing executive of Mickie's restaurants trying to find out why there are too many feces showing up in Mickies patties. The second story centers around a group of Mexican illegals being smuggled into the country so they can find jobs. The main characters of the group end up at the meat processing plant where the patties for Mickies "big one" are made. The third story involves a teen that works in a Mickie's restaurant but is convinced by her school buddies to try to protest the company.
I was riveted to the tale from the start and I really enjoyed it. I can't understand why the average rating is not higher for this film. I give it a full five stars.
Informative If A Little Slow Moving
posted on 19 Aug 2009Fast Food Nation I would rate as a good not great movie. It exposes the meat packing and food services industry as not all that sanitary and certainly not compassionate. The groups of teenagers, illegal immigrants, and phony and even unsavory corporate suits show the viewer that the all mighty dollar is king and many workers are just pawns in their universe.
There are some slow draggy moments in the film especially the border runs to pick up the illegal aliens. Nonetheless, I believe this film has started a trend of people becomming more health conscious and turnng more to vegatarianism.
I believe I'll have a salad, please
posted on 12 Aug 2009I was grossed out enough after watching "Super Size Me" to never want to eat at a fast food place again, even though at the time I'd not eaten at McDonald's for years. Now that I've seen "Fast Food Nation" if I needed any further reinforcement that "Fast Food" is evil, I now have it. There are several stories going on here, one of illegal immigrants that gain entry to the US and end up working in a slaughterhouse in Cody, CO. There is an executive that works for fast-food chain Mickey's (Greg Kinnear) who is on his way to check out the processing plants because of reports that there is fecal matter in the meat, and there's a young girl who works at a Mickey's store who is for once looking at and thinking about what she's doing and wondering why. Kinnear is good as the curious and apparently somewhat naive executive who can't believe the things he's hearing or finding out. The saga of the immigrants is also interesting as they're basically forced to work at this place and are are given drugs (methamphetamine) so they can WORK FASTER, and there's also a supervisor out to bed every new young lady that he can. There are a few pretty disgusting scenes, and this may in some ways qualify as a horror movie of sorts, although it's more a fear of what big corporations are doing than one where "the bogeyman will get you"....or is it? Maybe not. Overall this is a well-done film and the stories & acting are great, but some of the imagery is just plain nauseating. I hardly ever eat beef at all anymore, over the last few years I've gotten away from it, but after watching this I doubt I'd even consider it again. 8 out of 10.
Shocking but necessary
posted on 06 Aug 2009After watching this movie it's very hard to pass by a fast food restaurant again without wondering were the food comes from. This movie delivers more than it promises, and therefore like "Super Size Me", it's a "must see" movie. It's shows without cuts that the truth is out there and that we cannot close our eyes to the wrong things that some companies are doing to the planet and the exploitation that men is practicing against each other. Some moments of the movie are hard to watch for it's crudity, but if this is the price, than OK, it's really worth paying. Congratulations for the wonderful job made by Lynklater, that has proved tons of versatility by directing this movie after delivering the cult movie "Before The Sunrise".
Go read the book
posted on 06 Aug 2009Fast Food Nation is a film that maybe shouldn't have been made. It fails to be either a documentary worthy of the subject matter, or a piece of fiction that holds your attention. There are snippets of nice storyline and characterisations, but they are few and far between.Catalina Sandino Moreno, as the main female character does a great job, and the storyline about the Mexican workers is well done, but the way the focus shifts between three main narratives, and some of the picayune detail of those stories is unwarranted, I feel.Some of the younger actors give the better performances, but Bruce Willis in particular is over the top and plays an almost clumsily drawn character. Greg Kinnear's performance is fairly dull, and has no real force as a leading character and the purported means to thread the film into some cohesion.If you want a film that talks about the way that the realities of a workplace and the search for a place in the world intrude into our happy fantasies, this might be your film. It certainly doesn't work as a exploration of the fast food culture or the meat packing industry, and too much of the interesting depth in the book was glossed over, or missed altogether.
Careful, you may not eat meat again!
posted on 05 Aug 2009I read the book a couple of years ago and was disturbed...but the movie really brought the message home for me. I actually enjoyed the movie very much and would highly recommend it. I guess that my expectations were pretty low coming in, but the A-List actors that took part in the project did wonders for what could have been an awful movie.
A Caveat...if you're on the fence, you may find yourself headed down the road to veganism. After watching it, I thought that I may not be able to eat meat again...but then I got home and made myself some pepper steak all was well.
not organized, or concluded
posted on 02 Aug 2009Fast Food Nation seemingly forgets to take us back to its main story about the corporate side of the burger industry. After the main character leaves Colorado to go back to California, they should have continued with his story. How did he report his findings to his boss? How did he and his wife respond to his trip? Does he still eat the "Big One"? Instead, after he leaves Colorado, the movie lazily stays on the story of the corruption at the meat-packing plant, even though this point - the meat packing industry is horrible - had already been drilled into us, early on. And the other side story, about the rebellious teenage girl, during her quitting her job scene, the other male employee says something to the effect of, the fast food industry is not morally "wrong", just low-paying. This seemed to contradict major points of the movie.
The Kill Floor
posted on 28 Jul 2009SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
This is more of a commentary than a review but take what you will from it.
I read a review that said they wished for closure on the Greg Kinnear story arc... The closure was, that there was NO closure to his thread... or any of the other threads.
I think many viewers wanted something (ironically) neatly packaged for easy consumption... maybe spoonfed?
The whole movie was basically a "six degrees of separation" of the fast food industry.
Yes, for the most part illegal aliens do work in meat processing plants... yes the women may or may not have to do things to get ahead (but that happens EVERYWHERE).
Impressionable youths go off and become crusaders, and people that know what really goes on in the industry stay in there cushy jobs collecting a fat check, and turn the other cheek.
That's it for now. I'll add more later.
urrrppp!
posted on 26 Jul 2009Warning: watching the last three minutes of this film can lead to vegetarianism. Based upon Eric Schlosser's devastating book about the fast food industry by the same title (2001), this fictional film never quite finds its focus. The ostensibly main character disappears half way through, never to reappear. It's not clear which of the many sub-plots is the main narrative. But I still recommend the movie. When corporate hack Don discovers that there are more than chemical additives to Mickeys "Big One" burger, namely fecal matter, he travels to the Uniglobe Meat Packing Company to find out what's wrong. Lots, it turns out. You'll find yourself back in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906), what with illegal immigrant labor on the cheap, animal cruelty, horrible sanitation, hazardous work conditions, employee abuse, pitiless corporate greed, and more, all to feed our fast food habits. You'll never think about a Big Mac in the same way, nor should you, thanks to this mediocre movie that nevertheless provides some serious social commentary.
I bit horrifying...but ok...read my review
posted on 24 Jul 2009Ok, so I bought this movie b/c I don't eat burgers, fries, ect....any fast food would be Subway...b/c I can WATCH them make the food...and now I have more of reason than ever...when that kid SPIT in the food, I freaked...I mean I know this stuff happens, but still!!
My problems w/ this movie are that some parts are very boring. Too much talking, and not enough action...I did NOT care for the sexual parts, there was no need to put pure sex w/ nudity in this movie...it served NO purpose to the meaning of this film.
It does make me think twice though...I had no idea how awful the slaughter houses were, and what the cows go through...that was disturbing, and I was bothered....
I felt strange for the rest of the night, and wish I would have never watched the movie....it's a movie I would sell or give away in a heart beat. I plan to NEVER watch it again.
If you have $12 you want to spend on a DVD...find something else to spend it on....
Almost a Vegetarian.
posted on 23 Jul 2009It wouldn't take much to turn me into a vegetarian. I watched this movie on TV the night before the announcement of the largest meat recall in US history, and I'm beginning to wonder if the fates aren't trying to tell me something? Poor hygiene, worker exploitation and animal abuse, were all laid out here on film, and then on the broadcast news next morning. Hmmm.But while the message of this film is thought provoking and needed, the movie itself is a little disappointing. (And no, I haven't read the book, although I know I should.) It views like too much of a political tract and too little like a good drama. That may make it very worthy but it immediately limits who will bother watching it, and I suspect that mostly Fast Food Nation is preaching to the converted. The goodies are all too good. The baddies are all too bad. It could have done with more nuance, life is rarely quite so black and white. Famous names pop up from time to time, (Bruce Willis, Avril Lavigne etc), no doubt getting some 'right-on' credibility for doing their bit for the cause at minimum wage, but it would have worked better with a cast of unknowns. It's distracting to see a political movie degenerate into an "Oh look there's….." movie.This is very much an ensemble piece, following the lives of a group of illegal immigrants from Mexico who go to work in and around a slaughter house and meat packing plant in Colorado. Alongside the migrants we see the school kids who work the local fast food joint where much of the meat ends up in cheap burgers, the promotions man from fast food HQ in New York who is sent to investigate an outbreak of e coli sourced to the plant, and a particularly nasty plant supervisor who extracts sex from the women as the price of earning a living wage. Everyone is just trying to do their job and earn a living of course, but in doing so they inadvertently manage to create an unsafe, exploitative and abusive system both for the people who work in it and the poor dumb animals who get eaten. The female nudity (and nudity of either gender in film is not something I normally have a problem with) was maybe a bit gratuitous in this case. It added little to the story line. We know the slimy supervisor sleeps with the women. We didn't need to see their breasts to believe it. Alongside the images of the skinned cattle, it seemed heavy handed.What the film perhaps doesn't emphasise enough, in my opinion, is that this is all being done to produce cheap food, which is, unfortunately what much of the country wants. Ask people if they want humanely produced meat and of course they will say yes. Ask them if they will pay extra for it, and again most will say yes. Then follow them around a supermarket, and watch how many actually put their money where their mouth is. Fast Food nation is a good idea inadequately realized on screen.
a bit of umbrage
posted on 19 Jul 2009i would never normally comment on someone else's movie dislikes/likes. We do like our own things and are affected in different ways, naturally. But, James Alex Neve's comments about this movie being unable to shock him with new immigrant working conditions, mcdonaldization processed American.. blah.. blah... as being unmoving is more tellings of neve's character and condition.This movie is unearthing. you leave feeling awful in a way that there is no resolution to what you see and know as, indeed America. but, it's so devastating and it really focuses on how we are all belted, regardless, on the backs of one another. We are a cycle, all parts must function, on the compromise of some other part at times, and, as well, in disregard.I found the factory scenes so uncomfortable to watch. There was never a feeling of safety, which was a wonderfully crafted perspective of the immigrant's constant state of existence.One more thing... its curious that neve seems to be writing from the UK, not Texas where immigrant labor runs unprotected and rampant and where this movie was shot. You can't take anything this guy says seriously. He's admittedly jaded and unaffected, but to also insist on knowing anything about the "already known" state of immigrant labor is so insulting and renders him completely useless as a voice of social and cinematic reasoning. Neve totally exposes what we already know as well, that he must be a white male, born with privileges he doesn't even recognize -- because he knows no other perspective. So sad for him.This movie is necessary and wonderfully done. Hats off.
Emotionally Void
posted on 15 Jul 2009There is a scene in Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation where two illegal Mexican immigrants sit in the back of a pickup truck as they are being carted off to work at a meat packing plant in a midsize Colorado town. As the truck glides down the town's main drag, the two men are greeted with their first uninhibited sight of America: a landscape comprised of chain restaurants and $2.99 Happy Meals—-a literal sea of neon signs and billboards. From this, it's obvious that Fast Food Nation isn't a movie that holds its punches. With each passing burger joint and pizza place dotted along the road, Linklater is posing a silent question. He's asking about consumerism and an American obsession with immediacy. He's criticizing the "bigger is better" and "quantity over quality" aphorisms that have run amuck amongst this country's social conscience. But, as the film progresses, it becomes clear that Linklater likes to pose more questions than he actually likes to answer. The film is attempting to be a desperate wake up call to a society that is trying to eat itself to death. But, in reality, what we get is nothing more than a bold prophet that simply can't begin to live up to or answer its own queries.Based on a nonfiction book of the same name, Fast Food Nation ultimately fails because it doesn't quite know what it's trying to do. Filmed in a style that feels very organic, Linklater is attempting to blur his cinematic world with that of reality—-where his fictionalized "Mickey's" burger joint could easily pass for the local McDonalds or Taco Bell. This realist approach is juxtaposed against the fictionalized characters that artificially inhabit the playing field. To put it bluntly, it's a mixture that just doesn't work. Several sub-stories are told in conjunction with each other, each poorly paced and each not given the appropriate attention it deserves. For instance, Greg Kinnear's blissfully ignorant fast food marketing executive is completely dropped halfway through the film. This unevenness not only feels awkward, it stilts the narrative structure. If the character is so unimportant that he can just disappear, why should we care? The other stories get similar treatment, complete with stereotypical teenage miscreants and an overly aggressive meat packing foreman that preys upon the immigrants that work there. The moments of genuine emotion—-such as Catalina Sandino Moreno's performance as a distraught migrant wife—-are too few and far between. The rest of the movie is clumsily ground together with odd cameos that, while somewhat interesting, are not smoothly congealed into the rest of the recipe.By the time Linklater gives us his grand finale—an uncensored, raw look at the killing floor of a meat packing plant—-we get the feeling that the film is less concerned about stirring genuine emotions and more interested in manipulatively gutting the feelings out of us. If we can watch such bovine terror, than darn it, we should feel something! Yet, there is no connection to what we are seeing. It's a spectacle, stuffing us with a bombardment of grotesque images that ineffectually force us to react—-gross, but ultimately hollow. And in that respect, ironically, Fast Food Nation is very much like the pre-made meals it claims to despise—somewhat visually appetizing, but ultimately void of emotional and nutritional content.
I'll never eat meat again
posted on 14 Jul 2009I just watched this DVD last night. The chilling 10 minute segment at the end turned my stomach. I cried when I saw those cows being shot in the head with the stun gun and the blood and gore spilling over the boots of the workers.
The food industry and especially the fast food industry really make me sick. They exploit people of color to do the job at a cheap price and subject these poor people to untold unsafe conditions and crappy treatment.
The thought now of eating chicken, beef or pork nauseates me. As a yogi, I should know better than eating meat. These poor animals are frightened and deservedly so when they're cornered into those rooms to be shot. I personally feel their terrified vibrations stay in that meat and we eat that. I know from being a vegetarian for many years, the less meat I ate, the less aggressive I was as a woman and I was a lot slimmer.
After watching SuperSizeMe, I realized how diabolical the food industry is. I'm going to take my no meat eating even further, only organic fruits and vegetables. I'm going to spend money on my local organic businesses rather than the large food conglomerates.
As they stated in SuperSizeMe, 1 out of every 2 kids born in 2000 will have diabetes. This is terrible! I remember when I went to Sicily in 2002 and saw rarely any heavy people! You know why? They ate an agricultural peasant diet of fresh fruits and vegetables and mostly fish. Beef, chicken and pork (in the area I toured) was an anamoly. Fast food was a rarety as it was a poor area I stayed in.
What an ironic turn of events, the poorer people of Sicily are a lot healthier than people I see here in OC who are a lot wealthier. Wealth doesn't buy you food smarts, but it does buy you a lot of dining out on overpriced foods that are full of salt, fat and additives. I really believe that the ingredients in these foods make you addicted to their foods.
After I came back from Sicily I went on a NO fast food or dining out diet. I lost 35 pounds in 3 months and saved $400.
My moral and social conscience will never allow me to buy beef, pork or chicken again. I will occasionally buy seafood, but that's it. My review is to not be preachy but I think we have to ask ourselves why are we spending money on organizations that harm others and exploit them for money and could potentially harm our children?
To go where no one ever wants to go
posted on 11 Jul 2009I have no idea what the filmmakers had in mind but the story didn't go anywhere except to show an unnecessary amount of sex and the poor conditions of work for illegal aliens. I must say that it amount to less than nothing. This movie would have been much better if it had been turned into a documentary instead of a film because it would not only raised awareness, it might actually bring some truth to light instead the filmmakers decided to make a motion picture to bore audiences to death with a wannabe documentary with lots of speculation. What a disappointment. There should have been truth and proof of these activities not this going nowhere storyline.
You can't handle the truth
posted on 30 Aug 2009This is a great movie. Some criticism is that the movie is too many things; I think it's actually one of the film's strengths.One of my favorite parts of this film is the university students forming their group and deciding to take action, then seeing their action not have the effect they hoped it would. You can see Amber having a formative experience in her life, and her eyes opening into a larger world and that's worthwhile for anything else.I didn't really care for Ethan Hawke dropping the same slacker science bit he did in "Reality Bites" ten years ago, but no film can be perfect.I believe this movie should be rated higher than it is, as a reflection of our times. I think the food companies want very much to trivialize it and most people don't want to face up to the impact that the choices they make have on the lives of others.