Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.

April 2007 activity

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Fast Food Nation / USA / 2006

Eric Schlosser’s text loses much of its bludgeon in its translation into a fiction film, but his agenda is honored amply, even if the film is more subversive than explicit. There’s a masterful turn of events when Greg Kinnear — a white collar for a fast food corporation entitled “Mickey’s” — faces the difficulty of explaining to his boss the unclean nature of a meat processing plant. “We all have to eat a little shit from time to time,” an informant explains to him. Convinced of the absolute futility of his plight, he returns to home, and exits the film halfway through.

Fast Food Nation illustrates such futility from a number of facets: some high-school students attempt to stage a protest by freeing a herd of cattle—upon dissecting a metal fence in the middle of the night, they find the cattle perfectly content to graze exactly where they are. There is also the perpetual delivery of illegal immigrants to the filthy Colorado slaughterhouse, the enormous travel rewarded with what are among the worst, most dangerous jobs available. In a fashion less affronting than Schlosser’s text but nonetheless caustic, Fast Food Nation intends to instill in the viewer the alarming realization that the individual may be incapable of diminishing the velocity of one of the most profitable and inhumane economies on Earth.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Fox DVD
13 Apr 2007 2:08 PM | Submit Comment

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