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Picks of the Week
The Corporation
Friday, 7 p.m. in Kalama Room 103 at Maui Community College
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April 14, 2005
[FILM] During the 1930s and 1940s, IBM pursued a "strategic alliance" with Nazi Germany. As journalist Edwin recounted four years ago, IBM sold and maintained punch-card machines to the Nazis, who used them to keep track of Jews moving through the concentration camps. IBM's response to the revelations was to simply say they were "old news." Though an admittedly extreme example, all corporations are like IBM: they do as they please. Based on the book of the same name by Joel Bakan, this film treats the modern corporation the way it wants to be treated—as a person. Using interviews with business executives and well-known talking heads like scary economist Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein and Michael Moore, the film explores the corporation's personality, obligations, mindset, principles and values. Guess what? It's not in good shape. [ANTHONY PIGNATARO]
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