Holy crapoli. This is legitimately, possibly, probably the first film I've ever felt the need to hit "stop" on a film because I was so overwhelmed by its content. Courtesy of kill floors and cut chickens, "Food, Inc" is a film of true galvanizing power, even if it is standard doc fare. Upon the interest instilled by a buddy that rented "Inc" this weekend, I sought the film to see what the hubbub was about. I mean, this was sponsored by Chipotle, and it seemed to freak some out.
Check the ingredients: Robert Kenner's documentary is an up to the moment examination of how we eat, what we eat, and how we get what we eat. Admittedly, there's common knowledge on display here:
- Corn baby corn.
- Feces in the meat.
- How livestock is treated.
- Corporations and quantity over quality.
- Shop Whole Foods.
- Stock footage from Youtube and even "Baraka?"
But the fact that all this information is super-combined into this 90-minute gorging, makes you become so ill at the thought of the American food system. I had to stop at the killing floor scene, I was so pale from it all. "Food, Inc" is certainly imperfect, but it's mostly important and impacting. And I've been reading the ingredients all weekend long...
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