"The Yes Men” Documentary Review

Yes Man documentary

“The Yes Men” Documentary Review Paragraph #1: The title of the Film is called the “Yes Man” documentary. The Directors of the film are Sarah Price, and Dan Ollman. The Point of the film is to show the general public the corruption of the World Trade Organization. The film follows the chronological order of dates and times of when things are shown and presented. This structure is very effective at conveying their thoughts on the WTO and how they exploit people. The Guerilla type of marketing that they use is very effective and in turn gives them much more publicity, which in turn is the opposite of what the WTO wants. Paragraph #2 The “Yes Man” documentary was a reflexive type of documentary. The perspective of the documentary is based on the public’s thoughts on the WTO and their choices for there company. As well the perspective of young people and their views on the WTO’S choices. As well the perspective of the news and media around the thoughts of the “Yes Men” and their commercially sold ideas. The scenes when they go to the university, and when they go to the presentation in Finland, and when they were on CNN. All of these examples show how this documentary was a reflexive type documentary. Paragraph #3 I thought the strengths of the film were the parts where they went to meetings and presentations in other countries, and in universities as well. I thought the fact that they could trick some of the smartest people into their ideas, and how ridiculous they are, as well that they had such a small budget. I thought the scene where they went to Helsinki, Finland and proposed their suit for company owners or bosses to use and keep an eye on their workers. This proposition was very interesting idea, because everyone thought it was such a crazy idea, but they still had no questions or open thoughts that they wanted to share about the suit, because everyone thought it was real. And another scene that I thought was very effective was the scene where they went to the class of University students. And proposed a McDonald’s project for third world countries and how to preserve the food from a American fast food chain, through a giant international Mcdonalds food pipe to feed people in other countries around the world. Paragraph #4 The values the “The Yes Man” documentary has in our culture is the fact that they can take advantage of the most powerful organizations and let the world see how ridiculous they make the companies look, with a very low budget. The positive outcomes that can come from their documentary are to show the crooked side of the WTO and its thought’s and ideas. Some negative outcomes that could come from this documentary could be the fact that some people have very negative thoughts on what the WTO is doing.