Theaters these days have been flooding with political documentaries but only a few of them can catch up with thisone. The documentary explores what has now become the most dominant institution in our society – The Corporation.
The film that uses the 14th Amendment as its springboard densely compiles information on and about the concept of a corporation right from its inception in the industrial age to the present day, and also portrays its repercussions.
Using the 14th Amendment the Supreme Court defined a corporation as a person and thus bestowed it with rights that a citizen has. The documentary uses this pretext as a clever joke and sets out to map the personality of a corporation. The mapping goes on to mark the negative features of a corporation like lying and deceit, causing harm to other, etc. which in the end equates to the profile of a psychopath.
Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott then show us how corporations can go to any lengths to achieve their goals, right to the point of plotting against the President of the United States (Roosevelt).
It is a grave picture that they present further in the documentary which almost invokes a feeling of hatred for the corporations. However when the camera captures notable people like Michael Moore and Noam Chompsky, they themselves agree that the corporations have become such a part of the society that even they have to depend on them to get their message to the people. This begs to ask the question, ‘is there no escape from the corporation?’