This is one of the better politically motivated documentaries i've seen. I agree with what someone mentioned about the ending being a little too preachy... Not only was it too preachy, it watered down the content and the information the film provided (it pretty much ends saying: buy organic and you will save the world and yourself from destruction... what a load of bull Sh@t!) Other than the ending, which was completely unnecessary, the film was great. It basically took Marxist concepts of alienation to analyze the way in which we get food... (it's easy to know what a Frito is but its VERY hard to understand the process in which that Frito is created). It used alienation to scare the crap out of the viewer in a poetic and fact based way. The process behind the manufacturing of a corn chip or a tub of mayonnaise really sheds a light on the way in which our representative "democracy" functions--with industry (in this case Food) becoming the fourth, most powerful branch of government. It becomes clearer each day that America's legacy will be the manufacturing and selling of products which are trash (how many days a week do you open your mailbox to find all you have received is junk mail?) so that a handful of oligarchs can suck the nectar from the teats of the gods. Not only does big business create a system of trash for cash... the government subsidizes it so that these companies can put lots of time and money into trying to convince people like me that their garbage is worth buying. "thanks for nothing" is pretty much the unconscious slogan in every store when the clerk hands you your bag. More films like this need to be made... one's that scare people by simply explaining the systems that affect them on a daily basis. It's too bad the ending just looked like a PR campaign for Wal Mart and big business organics. Its going to take a lot more than boycotting to solve this problem especially during an economic crisis.
Review of Food, Inc.
