Movie Review
By Local 13796 Retiree Nykula Gilliam
"THE BIG SELLOUT"
DVD only
94 minutes, 2006
Director: Florian Opitz, Producers: Felix Blum and Ame Ludwig
In English and Spanish with English subtitles throughout
MODERN WELFARE REMOVES THE HUMANE FROM HUMAN.
PRIVATIZATION - CASH FOR CASUALTIES.
This film gives a nasty, painful and disgusting look at how the majority of inhabitants on this earth are treated. BECHTEL, a multi-billion dollar U.S. Corporation, privatized a Soweto, South Africa electric company in 1999. Price increases created mass disconnection, all for private profit. BECHTEL can't feel the suffering they caused. In Brighton, Great Britain, the privatization of the trains in 1997 resulting in a two-car train collision in 1999. Maintenance to the rails went unassigned. This was due to neglect and greed. Health care treatment for the poor in Manila, Philippines was free. Now privatized, it aggravates the access of the poor to health services. After 6 months of protest, the people of Cocohabamba, Bolivia, resisted the private takeover of their water by uniting and organizing to overcome fear and win.
Every individual should be provided the means to sustain and maintain a normal life. Some do fall on hard times.
This is an eye-opening film.
"Money invested in corporate well-being creates wealth. Money given to poor mothers and children creates poverty" (related research quote)