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Can THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD?
Posted by James Dennis at 10:55am.
Posted in Film News , Documentary, Continental Europe & Russia, USA & Canada, Random Festival News.
Debuting in Europe at the Berlin Film festival last Friday, The Yes Men Fix The World looks set to make as strong an impression over here as it did at Sundance. A cross between Michael Moore-esque political activism and Sacha Baron Cohen absurdism, it’s always good to see some top corporate bods lampooned mercilessly by the odd practical joke or two…particularly as we all teeter on the brink of recession misery.
The Yes Men Fix The World (dir. The Yes Men, 2009) is a screwball true story that follows a couple of gonzo political activists as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. Along the way the duo discover the culprits behind the cult of greed, and in a wildly uplifting ending, they find a way for everyone to defeat the cult and save civilization from its own worst excesses.
After years of doing their thing, the Yes Men pull off a stunt that opens their eyes to exactly how much danger we all face. Andy, purporting to be a Dow Chemical spokesperson, gets on the biggest TV news program in the world and announces that after 20 years of denial, Dow will finally clean up the site of the Bhopal Catastrophe, the largest industrial accident in history. The result: as people worldwide celebrate, Dow’s stock value loses two billion dollars. People want Dow to do the right thing, but the market decides that it can’t. The reality hits Andy and Mike like a ton of bricks: we have created a market system that makes doing the right thing impossible, and the people who appear to be leading are actually following its pathological dictates. If we keep putting the market in the driver’s seat, it could happily drive the whole planet off a cliff.
You can see the trailer and read more here.
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