As laws currently stand, a corporation has almost as many rights (and in some cases more) than a person. In fact, the film starts off with the premise that in law a corporation is a person. Then it proceeds to explore what kind of “person” a corporation makes. The verdict is not good. Using a checklist, with criteria used by the World Health Organization and the DSM-IV to assess mental illness, the film concludes that the corporation is a psychopath with symptoms including deceitfulness, incapacity for guilt, and reckless disregard for the safety of others.

The film, even at 145 minutes, is revealing as explores the impact that corporations have had on life today through a mixture of interviews and footage of advertising, news, investigative reports, documentaries. And it wouldn’t be a true take-down of the corporate form without an appearance, and final words, from Michael Moore.

A small bit of trivia from the film: A new drink was invented by Coca Cola during World War II specifically for the Nazi market because they had trouble getting the Coca Cola syrup in from the States. The drink – Fanta.