4-5-18 Film Review

A recent documentary film that I watched recently is Food, Inc. It is on farming in America and it shows the negative sides that people are unaware about. For informational documentaries like this, it is important that the viewer is aware of the purpose of the film by the end. Manohla Dargis wrote in the New York Times, "Nothing says horror like one of those tubs of artificially buttered, nonorganic popcorn at the concession stand. That, at least, is one of the unappetizing lessons to draw from one of the scariest movies of the year..." Food, Inc. was successful as a documentary because people were able to come to the same conclusion intended where fast food chains are unhealthy to eat from. They incorporated a lot of visual images and those usually impact viewers more after they see it. Manohla Dargis also wrote in the New York Times, "From there the director Robert Kenner jumps all over the food map, from industrial feedlots where millions of cruelly crammed cattle mill about in their own waste until slaughter, to the chains where millions of consumers gobble down industrially produced meat and an occasional serving of E. coli bacteria." By including detailed information in the documentary and showing the process for this specific topic, viewers are able to relate more and it evokes emotion out of them.