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Free Film Screening // The Yes Men Fix the World
Thursday Sep 30, 7PM @ Red Emma's
What do you get when you run free-market principles to their logical ends? Frightful conclusions, made hilarious by the Yes Men treatment. Corporate bad guy imposters the Yes Men bring their unique form of protest to Red Emma's for a free screening of their latest documentary, The Yes Men Fix the World.
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.
The reality hits Andy and Mike like a ton of bricks: we have created a market system that makes doing the right thing impossible, and the people who appear to be leading are actually following its pathological dictates. If we keep putting the market in the driver's seat, it could happily drive the whole planet off a cliff.
At conference after conference, the Yes Men try to wake up their corporate audiences to this frightening prospect, in the process taking on some of the world's biggest and baddest corporations.
Bonus: This film has one of the very few underwater ballet scenes you will ever see in a political documentary!
"Hilarious, therapeutic, inspiring. The Yes Men are geniuses." — Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo
"Outrageously entertaining....This movie is glorious testimony to the moral power of satire." — New York Magazine
"We think it is a serious matter when people willingly misrepresent themselves." — Exxon
"It's really a sick, twisted - I don't even want to refer to it as a joke." — US Department of Housing and Urban Development
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