I thought it was weird that they decided to make the movie a fictionalized version of the book, which is jampacked with information about all different aspects of the fast food industry. Wouldn't it have been better to make a documentary? Then again, people connect to characters and their stories. (Of course, the real reason a documentary wasn't made was because all the studios have relationships with fast food companies and it would affect sponsorship, blah blah blah.)
Good adaptation or not, the information is worth knowing. Here's a good Q&A with the author of the book, which started out as an article for Rolling Stone, but got so much attention that he expanded his investigation and research. He recently published Chew On This, sort of a different version of Fast Food Nation, meant for a younger audience, which made a splash.
I'm starting to believe that almost every decision you make is political. Which movie to go see and whether to see it on opening weekend, where to eat or buy food. I wanted to go see Fast Food Nation on opening weekend just to support it because whether it's good or not, more movies like it should be made. Too many of us are unaware of the mechanisms behind so many simple things in our lives.
I believe that ignorance is bliss, but I'd rather be appalled and working on corrections to the problems.
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"Fast Food Nation" sounds like a modern version of "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair... which, I believe, was also changed to fiction (a novel) because novels were selling better at the time and more people would read it.
I agree that almost every decision is political. It's almost like once you become aware of the world's complexity it immediately becomes infinitely complex and blows your mind.
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