King Corn

[darkemeralds]

I just got done watching "King Corn," a documentary about, well, corn. I think everyone who eats in America should give it a look. "Enough to leave you distrusful of everything on your plate," says one review.



"King Corn" is really about the food supply in America. The story begins with the filmmakers, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, having hair samples tested in a lab. "We're made out of corn," they say. They spend a year in Iowa growing an acre of corn and finding out how it is that they came to be so thoroughly corn-fed.

The film draws an explicit and direct line from US farm policy changes in the late 1970s, through the fabulously productive cornfields of Iowa, to today's epidemic of obesity and diabetes. It confirms what I've long suspected: that there's something in the food supply that is making us sick--and that something is today's corn.

With some great music by the WoWz, some cute stop-motion animation, some beautiful footage of Iowa, and an oddly slashable pair of filmmakers some really worthwhile bonus features, "King Corn" is a pretty entertaining way to inspire a major change in your view of food.

Comments

[skripka.livejournal.com]

*adds to netflix queue*

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Hope you enjoy it!