we saw the corporation yesterday afternoon at film forum. really, really well done. most certainly worth seeing. i feel that it doesn't leave itself open to any of the potential criticisms that moore's 911 does and it sidesteps countless temptations to stay tightly focused on making a limited (though wide-ranging) argument: that the very (legal and probably conceptual) concept of a corporation as an "entity" (my word; they use person) in the eyes of the law has has created a frankenstienian monster that we all need to be paying a lot more attention to. (i have a lot to say on this, so i am going to just keep adding to this entry over the next few days.)

ok, so what are the core concepts and issues here? i see three main threads.

first, obviously, is the corporation itself. i've been thinking about the whole concept of a corporation a great deal over the last few years. as a sole owner of a (by any formal standard) tiny corporation with a bit more than a half dozen employees and a lot less than a million dollars in annual revenue, i would argue that the primary focus is less on the abstract concept of the corporation and more on what happens when such an entity grows larger than the sum of it's parts and, in a very real sense, takes on a life of it's own. one charge levied convincingly at corps in the film (and oft repeated elsewhere now) is that if a corp was a person it would be a psychopath.

second, i would argue, is the concept of ownership, not just of property but of ideas and concepts.

third, albeit a hefty step to the side, is what i am (somewhat oversimply) going to dub design.

still working...

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