Fast Food Nation
So I finally watched the movie Fast Food Nation. I taken by surprise. It actually was a good movie. I thought this movie was the one where the dude stuffed his face with Mickey Dee’s, I think that one was called Super Size This or something like that.
Fast Food Nation showed the plight of the undocumented Mexicans, what they go through to get here and a couple of the type of jobs that are avaiable to them. Actually, this is a subplot. The main stroy has to do with fecal matter being found in the hamburger meat of fast food reasturant very similair to McDonalds, Burger King and Wendy’s.
So the main character of the movie, played by Greg Kinnear, is the new V.P. for Marketing for the Mikeys Corporation. The movie opens to a Board Meeting where everyone is high-fiving eachother for the great turnout in the last quarter. After the meeting the President/CEO calles Kinnear into his office and proceeds to tell him that the Coporatio0n could be facing several class action law suits because fecal matter was found in the beef. He assigns Kinnear to go and investigate the meat processing plant where they get there meat from. Kinnear is all gun ho and ready to report the facts of what he has been finding until his last meeting with the broker played by Bruce Willis. The broker is the guy that negotiated the contract between the Corporation and the meat processing plant. To make a long story short, the broker discuades Kinnear from reporting what he has found.
Meanwhile we witness what is going on with the Mexicans that have crossed the boarder, and who just happen to be working at the meat processing plant. One of the supervisors is a real slime ball and has sex with all the pretty young women. He lies and convives and promises the world to them just so that he can get what he wants. We see him introduce one of these women to drugs and how he has his way with her. She is foolish enough to beleive that he loves her. Meanwhile her sister is trying to protect her but the young woman is so spaced out on drugs that she actually accuses here sister of being jealous and of wanting here man.
One guy fall into the meat grinder and loses his leg, the other Mexican that tried to help him falls off the second story tier and lands on his back. He is in the hospital with a slipp-ed disk and other back problems, when a company representative walks in with a translator and tells the guys wife that they found drugs in his blood, hence it was his fault and secondly he violated the no drug use policy so he is fired. As such, he has no medical coverage and his wife is now homeless.
A thrid story line involves a group of college kids that want to do something about both, the plight of the undocumented Mexican workers and the poor cows.
I may have given away more of the plot than I intended to, for those that have not yet seen this movie, but I will say this movie has no neat ending. In other words the end is open to each individuals interpretation.
One thing this movie did to me, while I have not yet decided to become vegetarin, I will no longer eat at McDonalds and/or the other fast food burger chains. So, that is my going green thing for today.
Till next time, peace.
