Jun 1, 2005

Filmmaker targets Wal-Mart

Ho hum.

Let me save you $10 for the price of a ticket and offer a brief synopsis of this not-yet-completed film:

  • Shots of fat people waddling around the Wal-Mart parking lot. Cut to forlorn downtown ruined by Wal-Mart.

  • Quirky, birkenstock-clad town activist who stared Wal-Mart down.

  • Wal-Mart execs looking shifty-eyed.

  • Interview with a single mother, formerly employed by Wal-Mart, who lost her job when she voted to unionize--she will have a terminally ill child, or chronic eczema, no health benefits, etc., etc. She won't have worked for a year. And she will be shunned, shunned I say, by former friends who still work there.

  • Shots of sweatshops.

  • Shots of shelves laden with unnecessary consumer goods--just to show us what materialistic pigs we are.

  • Interview with mom-and-pop shopowners, whose lives were ruined when Wal-Mart came to town.


  • Inescapable conclusion: Wal-Mart is eeevvviiilll!

    Readers are invited to submit their own synopses.

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