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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:24
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: Robert Greenwald (OUTFOXED) continues his expose of evil corporate doings with this documentary, released as part of Wal-Mart Week, a nationwide activist initiative to bring the company's business... Robert Greenwald (OUTFOXED) continues his expose of evil corporate doings with this documentary, released as part of Wal-Mart Week, a nationwide activist initiative to bring the company's business practices out into the open. From their disturbing morning cheer to their minuscule benefits packages and sweatshop-labor conditions, the documentary addresses the simple question: does America benefit from the presence of this low-priced chain? Employee testimony and statistics make Greenwald's case clear and effective, and the stories of enforced, unpaid overtime and the death of mom-and-pop businesses can hardly fail to leave viewers both saddened and enraged. [More]
Director: Robert Greenwald
Director: Robert Greenwald
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Reviews for Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Embora irregular (as seqüências que se focam na China beiram o ridículo, com a dublagem e os apelidos dos entrevistados), o filme de Greenwald estabelece argumentos fortes que levam o espectador a desejar boicotar a empresa-título.
If Greenwald's intention was to make the audience very angry indeed then the film is a resounding success ... it'll definitely make you want to boycott Asda.
Once again David slays Goliath in a documentary that has no pretense of being objective
It's a bill of indictment, really, more than an objective survey. Greenwald often makes his arguments with a kind of prosecutorial zeal that makes you chary of swallowing it whole.
A searing expose of the greed and systemic poor treatment of its workers by the largest corporation in the world.
If you think you already know all about how evil and rapacious America's largest retailer is, wait 'til you see this latest exercise in muckraking from Robert Greenwald...
The information in the film is largely anecdotal and not analytical. This is what gives the film its power.
Advocacy journalism at its most unsparing, and it demands to be seen, discussed, argued with, and acted upon.
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price lacks the cinematic panache to elevate it above the level of agitprop. But its all too relevant dissection of its subject is well worth paying attention to.
...will win few points for art...but its subject matter provides such a wealth of material that subtlety is hardly required, nor even desired.
For all its missteps, the movie powerfully suggests that Wal-Mart is capable of demoralizing a community so thoroughly that it doesn’t have the spirit to carry on its life outside the big box.
Wal-Mart says director Robert Greenwald's film is misleading and inaccurate, but it's hard to dispute the personal accounts from former Wal-Mart employees who speak from experience.
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