Positive Experience/Entertaining? Definitely, but depressing, too. I knew that corn is a bit of a SNAFU industry in this country, but it's much worse than I thought.
Technically any good? Without coming out too much on the anti-corn side of things, this docu does a pretty good job of explaining the situation we're in with corn and it's not good. Farmers are apparently paid to
not make a profit and there's too much corn being made every year and not all of it is even edible. Don't worry, there are a lot of other things inedible corn can be used for like something good like fuel or something horrible like HFCS. This movie is unbelievable, but unless they lied, so is the situation we Americans are in with corn. This movie breaks a lot of it down and even shows you that you can make high fructose corn syrup in your kitchen (it's apparently pretty dangerous).
How did it leave me feeling? Disturbed but unshocked. I am rarely surprised by the depths of absurdity our culture goes to in order to make capitalism work. I'm no commie, but this film illustrates the problem nonsensical capitalism brings to our lives. Check it out, you won't be sorry.
Final Rating? GSN - Go See Now--seriously--if more people knew how corn worked in this society, there would be change. (Well, I
hope there would be change, anyway...)
