Film Analysis: Food Inc.

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The documentary film “Food Inc.” opens with this attracting sentence, "The way we eat has changed more dramatically in the past 50 years than in the previous 10,000 years." With the rapid development of technology and industry, our demands for food have drastically increased. However, the problem of food safety that came along with the development has also become so severe that we can no longer ignore. In Food Inc., director Robert Kenner lifts the veil on America's food industry, exposing the highly confidential truth that has been hidden from the consumers with the acquiescent of our government's regulatory agencies. Monopolized and dominated mainly by a small group of multinational companies, the global food production business produced…show more content…
On the ostensibly clean food processing lines, disease like salmonella and E. coli Hippocratic can easily penetrate into the food. Health and safety of the food itself, of the assembly lines, of the workers and of the consumers are often ignored by the companies and the government in order to provide cheap food regardless of these negative consequences. Unfortunately, due to some policies and laws, individuals are not powerful and capable enough to resist the persecution that large company and government has imposed on them. Some of them tried to fight against it, but in the end they found out that it was almost impossible for them to change this situation by themselves, and they could just watch other people fall into this swamp and sink deeper and deeper. However, the filmmakers believe that this situation is by no mean unalterable. As long as more and more people start to know about the truths and come together to fight against it, the old policies will be changed and people will eventually get the safe and healthy food they…show more content…
The filmmakers promote their perspective of realities by putting a lot of interviews and short clips of videos in the factory or farms. First of all, the film is made of different interviews. These interviewers are primarily farmers, chicken raisers or consumers, who are the victims and sufferers of this food system and have either directly or indirectly, witnessed the evilness of it. The hatred, anger and depression they expressed throughout the interviews shows the vile impacts this system imposed on people. In one scene, a woman complains tearfully about the process that her child eats the food with E. coli disease and dead in 17 days. Her emotion resonates with the audience and makes us think about this issue seriously. Also, this film has a lot of short clips of videos taken in the farms and factories, including some filmed by candid camera. They authentically reveal the truth of the situation. For instance, the camera in the farmer’s chicken house records that at about 2 AM, a group of people listlessly came in and rudely threw all the chicken on the truck. The chicken house is dirty and dusty, and these workers have no masks or other protections. After they leave, there are only several dead chickens left on the floor and countless dusts float in the air. This scene reveals the tough situation that these workers are in. They are treated as animals and don’t have any rights. They get very low
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