The Yes Men Fix the World
Tuesday
Oct 11
07:00 pm
After months of preparation, the PREMIERE screening of Cinema Politica Perth is upon us!
The Yes Men Fix the World
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno / US / 2009 / 87 ' / English
A story about about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, pull off the world's most outrageous pranks.
Synopsis
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are two guys who just can't take "no" for an answer.
They have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways - basically doing everything that they can to wake up their audiences to the danger of letting greed run our world.
One day Andy, purporting to be a Dow Chemical spokesperson, gets on the biggest TV news program in the world and announces that Dow will finally clean up the site of the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal catastrophe. The result: as people worldwide celebrate, Dow's stock value loses two billion dollars. People want Dow to do the right thing, but the market decides that it can't.
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