I gonna try to write a couple of movies review for this entry. I don't think I have written any movie review in this blog before. Nevertheless, there's always the first time. These two movies I just watched have, well, reached into my whatever inside this hollow masculine body, or head, that screams, "I think I should share this!".
It's a couple of documentary movies: Food, Inc and Zeitgeist: Addendum.
Food, Inc (2008).
This is a documentary film about, well, food - mainly industrialized food industry in the United States. You can find reviews all over the internet about the specific details of this movie. If you read the book "Fast Food Nation", this movie is something like that - with motion graphics.
This movie can open our eyes to what people in the industry do to our food - not the ones you can get from a small friendly butcher house down at Newtown, maybe. This is not the standard hygienic issue about picking up the meat on the dirty floor, throw it back into the cooking pan and serve it to the customer thingy. That is just automatically implied - simple plain unethical people who should be thrown in jail and continuosly raped.
This movie exposes what corporate people do to maximize profit in the meat industry in the United States - to the very source. Due to my inability to focus throughout the movie, I can point out two major things:
Animal abuse - I heard that one of the things that a human being should once in his or her life is to visit an industrial slaughterhouse. You do the math - how would you kill 5,000 cows a day, with least cost? I wonder how is it different in the halal meat industry.
Food cost - It's cheaper to buy a fast-food burger than a healthy lunch salad and broccoli.
Well, there are other things on how small farmers are inable to compete with the giants to provide respectable meat supply, E. coli bacteria, war on national health, etc. The message is simple, really, for me anyway: Do think about it whenever we go a fast-food restaurant, or a supermarket to buy packed meat, try and have a thought where did the meat come from. Do we even have the ability to control it anyway? Do we have the voice to do so?
They will all still do it for profit.
Which comes the next movie: Zeitgeist Addendum (2008).
While the previous movie tells about food, this movie, instead, shows about where money comes from. It opens with the very fundamental weakness in the monetary system that is currently heavily manipulated by the strong corporates. It continues to show how the strong corporates maintain its power on the monetary system and by destroying the economy of the weaker countries. And yes, it is all about profit. This movie leads to eliminate the monetary system and propose a resource-based economy - a moneyless society, and it's named as the Venus Project.
If you find the reviews published around the web about this movie, there's a lot of mixed responses - mainly opposing the idea. Nevertheless, the key thing from this movie is to simply open our minds. Does the monetary system today have been beneficial to the human kind? Can it be developed to fairly serve everyone?
I like the idea of the moneyless society. Optimistic nonetheless. This is quite similar to my previous entry about guns and butter. Until people start to focus on producing butter, the transtition into a moneyless society is impossible. Try and watch the movie. It's available online anywhere. My advice is not to plainly accept everything - but to sit back, have a cup of coffee and have a thought or chat about it. This is about the future that our children will live in and perhaps, we can do something about it - one voice at a time.
Find the movies and enjoy.
It's a couple of documentary movies: Food, Inc and Zeitgeist: Addendum.
Food, Inc (2008).
This is a documentary film about, well, food - mainly industrialized food industry in the United States. You can find reviews all over the internet about the specific details of this movie. If you read the book "Fast Food Nation", this movie is something like that - with motion graphics.
This movie can open our eyes to what people in the industry do to our food - not the ones you can get from a small friendly butcher house down at Newtown, maybe. This is not the standard hygienic issue about picking up the meat on the dirty floor, throw it back into the cooking pan and serve it to the customer thingy. That is just automatically implied - simple plain unethical people who should be thrown in jail and continuosly raped.
This movie exposes what corporate people do to maximize profit in the meat industry in the United States - to the very source. Due to my inability to focus throughout the movie, I can point out two major things:
Animal abuse - I heard that one of the things that a human being should once in his or her life is to visit an industrial slaughterhouse. You do the math - how would you kill 5,000 cows a day, with least cost? I wonder how is it different in the halal meat industry.
Food cost - It's cheaper to buy a fast-food burger than a healthy lunch salad and broccoli.
Well, there are other things on how small farmers are inable to compete with the giants to provide respectable meat supply, E. coli bacteria, war on national health, etc. The message is simple, really, for me anyway: Do think about it whenever we go a fast-food restaurant, or a supermarket to buy packed meat, try and have a thought where did the meat come from. Do we even have the ability to control it anyway? Do we have the voice to do so?
They will all still do it for profit.
Which comes the next movie: Zeitgeist Addendum (2008).
While the previous movie tells about food, this movie, instead, shows about where money comes from. It opens with the very fundamental weakness in the monetary system that is currently heavily manipulated by the strong corporates. It continues to show how the strong corporates maintain its power on the monetary system and by destroying the economy of the weaker countries. And yes, it is all about profit. This movie leads to eliminate the monetary system and propose a resource-based economy - a moneyless society, and it's named as the Venus Project.
If you find the reviews published around the web about this movie, there's a lot of mixed responses - mainly opposing the idea. Nevertheless, the key thing from this movie is to simply open our minds. Does the monetary system today have been beneficial to the human kind? Can it be developed to fairly serve everyone?
"To see if we cannot radically bring about a transformation of the mind. Not accept things as they are - but to understand it, to go into it, examine it, give your heart and your mind with every thing that you have to find out. A way of living differently."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti-
I like the idea of the moneyless society. Optimistic nonetheless. This is quite similar to my previous entry about guns and butter. Until people start to focus on producing butter, the transtition into a moneyless society is impossible. Try and watch the movie. It's available online anywhere. My advice is not to plainly accept everything - but to sit back, have a cup of coffee and have a thought or chat about it. This is about the future that our children will live in and perhaps, we can do something about it - one voice at a time.
Find the movies and enjoy.
2 comments:
fast food nation is a great movie love it didnt know that its from book~~
food inc is not bad~~
Salam..
Wahai tuan empunya blog, lamenye tak update?? seminggu dh hamba menunggu,heheheeh...busy or blum ade idea lg???
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