Review of Fast Food Nation (2006) by Nickthecritick — 18 Apr 2022

Linklater decides to film his complaint following a double track. It follows the path of animal meat showing the immaculate asepticity of the spaces in which it is slaughtered but also the choice of waste parts aimed at the production of hamburgers. But, and this strengthens the complaint, it also follows the path that human 'flesh' (the clandestine workers) is forced to travel between humiliations, physical risks and the need for women to bow to the wishes of males who can decide their future. A very hard film, therefore, which however attenuates its force of denunciation due to an excess of sub-stories that slow down its pace, ending up in some cases by being channeled into dead ends.

A film with enormous potential but, thanks to a sometimes good and sometimes deceptive screenplay, it does not fully express it.