Review of Fast Food Nation (2006) by Thaik. — 28 Feb 2009

Any book or video that exposes corporations as totalitarian top down non-democratic highly subsidized immoral institutions must receive some merit for their input toward social responsibility. This film hints at this concept.

However, there is no question that the book this film is based on deserves substantial recognition for the effectiveness of clarifying this terrible reality of corporate interference that bleeds into society like an unseen plague.

Just the one fact highlighted in the book, not mentioned at all in the movie, that details how the corporate sector has gone from advertising on the sides of busses to editing and providing school books that 'compromise' topics of health when fast food is mentioned should be enough to frighten the general population into learning much more about these parasites.

The film is a terrible attempt at portraying anything near the value of the book, but like I said, any hint or mention of the nasties that go on because of the highly concentrated power in the corporate sector is worth something.

My main suggestion is to please read the book. After that read another and another. Any book of any lean, right-left-middle, doesn't matter since learning is the reason for reading. Television and mass media, your own newspaper, all market what they want you to become by providing highly censored content.

Books are usually written by passionate people with real purpose behind their concerns for society, just like Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation - the book, not the movie.