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This is What Democracy Looks Like
- Director: Jill Friedberg; Rick Rowley
- Producer: Jill Friedberg; Rick Rowley
CGiii Comment
Tell it how it is...instead of showing crusty activists banging drums.
The directors have created a nondescript film that is a catalogue of worthless soundbites by those already converted to their cause.
It's badly filmed, terribly edited and full of gimmicky little effects that can be found on every software editing package - just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it.
There is no power in one-sided argument - it becomes a pointless exercise in promoting a one-sided view.
Really, this is just rubbish - whether you believe in what they are saying or not - bad, bad documentary making.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
This film, shot by 100 amateur camera operators, tells the story of the enormous street protests in Seattle, Washington in November 1999, against the World Trade Organization summit being held there. Vowing to oppose, among other faults, the WTO's power to arbitrally overrule nations' environmental, social and labour policies in favour of unbridled corporate greed, protestors from all around came out in force to make their views known and stop the summit. Against them is a brutal police force and a hostile media as well as the stain of a minority of destructively overzealous comrades. Against all odds, the protesters bravely faced fierce opposition to take back the rightful democratic power that the political and corporate elite of the world is determined to deny the little people.
Cast & Characters
Noam Chomsky as Himself;
Michael Franti as Narrator;
Susan Sarandon as Narrator;
Vandana Shiva as Herself