This Documentary indeed changed my lifestyle, after watching it I was able to go easier WITHOUT nonstop consuming, brands after brands, the best, the most expansive and so on. I recommend everyone on earth who is living in one of the few rich nations to watch this movie and deeply think about it once in a while, than maybe renewing the input by watching it again after a few years. This Movie is not only about money and consumption, its about the awareness of your own acting and lifestyle. If you carefully analyze western society, you might find out that the greatest accumulating of free choice you can get is between one product or 432 similar products while shopping. Consumption IS the factor which moves our hole society along the day, it drives people crazy and by the way destroys half of the Earth without attracting attention (the other half seems to be reserved for war). ...So - You can also do without it! ... beans rice, rice and beans. beans. beans-rice - rice and beans

a movie about consumerism. not much irony. this movie plays pretty blandly with only one or two narrators, cut between multiple videos of seemingly random things about consumerism.the main narrator even says that protesting gets no notice until it gets to be a violent protest. anyways this is boring and definitely looks more like a music video. if you liked the music video look, which is cut up audio and video, especially using those sound effects from the videos. i recommend the "Coldcut & Hexstatic - Timber" video, which is 100x better than this movie.it is interesting how they show a small segment of Cuba wherein a lady shows us her ration card. and another girl who had visited London recounts her awe at seeing a supermarket. some of the movie is cut into car factories, computer exercise training, ship dismantling in India, and other random videos. but then there is no afterthought or commentary on it.in short, if you are looking for a good anti-consumerism movie, avoid this.

A very unusual documentary about consumerism. I preferstatistics-filled, dry, just-throw-the-facts-at-me types ofdocumentaries. I find most of Michael Moore's humor distracting to hismain points, for example. This film uses a variety of techniques toappeal to emotions. For instance, it uses a sometimes annoying, sometimes surprisinglyeffective tactic of repeating sound bites. The footage ranges fromprotests to interviews. Footage includes a Cuban teen's reactions tovisiting McDonalds, to European homeless people, to Microsoft's SteveBallmer dancing around screaming to motivate Windows programmers at aconference. It's truly unusual, but despite my preference for "drier"more fact-oriented documentaries, I found this unusual emotion-appealfilm quite enjoyable and effective. That surprised me; perhaps it willyou too?

This is one of the most touching and truthful documentary I have ever seen. The film is about our world, the modern civilisation that eats more than needed.What really makes me like it is how the messege is presented. It could almost be a MTV video if I didn´t know better. Various sound-clips and pictures made together rythmicly to music.It´s not very much information that is physicly showed, its the pictures in symbios with music that is the real strength in this flick.I strongly recomend that you see it as fast as you can and start to think; do I really need all this?