The Red Dragon Further Considers Corporate Responsibility

I watched Super Size Me last night. This seems to be Mlle La Spliffe Catches Up on Stupid Documentaries Everyone Has Seen But Her week. I have an easier time excusing them to myself than Vincent Cassel movies or porn when I know I have better (read: thesis) things to do.

The film and I started badly. I went into it thinking it was a retarded gimmick that was successful because America is a fucking pig for retarded gimmicks. And then my Feminist Supersenses tweaked at how lucky Morgan Spurlock thinks he is that he had a nice mother who created lots of happy memories in the kitchen, unlike all those sad poor fat children with the working moms. Nah, actually I doubt that was my razor-sharp feminist senses tweaking. Probably just defensiveness because I’m forgetting how to cook while all these mangiacakes around me learn.

On the happy side I thought it dodged consumer accountability less than the Corporation and that the section on advertising to children was interesting. Advertising to children is the devil and should be banned – like in Québec, but not a fucking joke. I’d love to be glib and say parents should trash television when kids are a certain age. But then there’s a cultural shorthand kids need to communicate with their own generation. And they’re fucking annoying sometimes, must be nice to park them in front of something that makes them quiet. Who am I to judge?

That may be the least sincere rhetorical question ever.

Speaking of, did anyone else find the vegan gf annoying? I imagine not. Vegans make me defensive too, with their stupid made-up name - vegan, what the fuck - moral consumption patterns and beautiful natural body odor, the bastards. I'm faced with my amorality every time they ask ‘how can you do that to another living thing when you have a viable nutritional choice’ and all that backs me up is the instinct that if it isn’t human, it’s my right as a healthy omnivore with billions of years of evolution behind me to eat it if I fucking well please, please and fuck you.

Anyways, not a great movie - I still think it was a retarded gimmick, and I could have done with less Spurlock and more talking heads - and what was said well was said far better in Fast Food Nation. I like Eric Schlosser alot. Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market is also a terrific book. I believe he's considered left wing so my socially progressive conscience is no longer growling over me spending a bunch of posts ripping into left-wing media. Now the Red Dragon is growling for some kung fu, but it’s not allowed. Nothing but edumacational movies until I’m a Master. Can anyone think of a documentary that holds a candle to When We Were Kings or Control Room? What about that shit with the penguins? Is that good?

News today - in case you don't look at the comments, you should, and you should look at the link Jiri provided that proves conclusively Microsoft is the devil. And look at this further evidence that Italians fucking rock.