Food Inc. (2008)

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	Year of first release: 2008
	Director: Robert Kenner
	Actors: Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, Richard Lobb
	Country: USA
	Genre: Documentary
	Conditions of visioning: 07.11.2014, SD VOD, 11" computer screen
Synopsis: The truth about how food is nowadays produced by a handful of multinational companies.
Review: This is one of the great things with VOD (Netflix now in my case): it proposes choices of movies I would have otherwise never bought or rented, and permits me to watch documentaries, which is the only thing I miss from the far-gone time when I was still watching TV. This documentary was nominated for the Academy Awards, but I didn't find it to be that well done. The topic is definitely interesting, and rather well presented (sliced in 6-8 topics/chapters), but the approach is not revolutionary, and I still have the felling of many ellipses, hard to avoid about a topic so vast. During the movie you learn or get confirmation of what you could suspect how food (corn or cattle) is produced in our global world, and it doesn't make you hungry. I liked that the documentary doesn't spend too much time showing animal cruelty to provoke reaction from the audience. Instead we get presented facts, and interviews from the too few people who dared speaking against the system. I was not completely depressed at the end of the movie because I try to believe that the food production in Europe is still (at least partly) in the hands of farmers and not multi-national corporations looking for the maximum profit without caring about the pubic health. In our old continent you can still easily find good food grown reasonably and not extensively, but it is true that you have to pay the price. In the documentary you see a family of four getting served a "full" lunch at a drive-through for 11 dollars, hard to beat but when you see how the meat looks like at the factory (after ammonia baths to kill the infamous bacteria E.Coli O104:H4), how the family members are fat and the father need to spend 100 dollars a month to fight diabetes...
Rating: 6 /10