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Download "The Yes Men" - Take it Back! [p2p]It's easier to download a copy of "The Yes Men" than find a perceptive review of the work. Please find the review from In These Times underneath. You can download The Yes Men by clicking here for the torrent. In order to download it you will have to install the foxy little program called Bit Torrent. All details and additional information required reside in the Fahrenheit 911 thread.
Oh and be warned that the scum from the Motion Picture Association of America have recently started legal action against people sharing movies, and undoubtedly suprnova is one of the places they'll be fishing. If you can, look around and you'll find it in less exposed torrent communities as well.Enjoy. When Yes Means No Into a season packed with political documentaries comes 'The Yes Men' ushering in a new and savvier era of protest.
The worst of times, the best of times: Sure, our nation is in the hands of a federal cabal to which nothing – lives, rights, nature, language, science, sovereignty – is sacred. Except profit. But as a result the popular culture is rousing from its inoculated slumber as it hasn't in 35 years.The symptoms of mass awakening are everywhere, but note, please, the astonishing surge of nonfiction film occupying even corporate-chain theaters, bellowing radical truisms. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 may be as historic as the war it critiques (and might turn out to be the most effective piece of political cinema since Leni Riefenstahl), but 2004 also has seen, so far, The Corporation (a wickedly eloquent expose of business power), The Hunting of the President (in which Ken Starr gets hung out to dry, finally), the anti-McD's hit Super Size Me, the desegregation history With All Deliberate Speed, S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (which left Western culpability implicit, but still) and the popular Al-Jazeera chronicle Control Room. Coming soon is the Howard Zinn profile You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, and, if we're lucky, the thus-far-undistributed Orwell Rolls in His Grave (on the new Newspeak) and Fernando Solanas' Memoria del Saqueo, a furious history of federal Argentine skullduggery and IMF devastation.
Together, the boys simply set up a Web site parody of the WTO, dryly cheerleading the institution's economic cut-and-burn tactics, at a surprisingly unclaimed domain name: GATT.org. Neither of the merry pranksters seemed too surprised when people began responding to the site as if it were genuine. But then they were invited to speak in person – on CNBC and at economic conferences – as representatives of the WTO. Men of their word, they bought secondhand suits, got on planes and did it. As affable as its protagonists are, The Yes Men, in the end, is somewhat slight: Bonanno and Bichlbaum's opportunities to enter the public eye as "honest" WTO execs were occasional, often small-time and sometimes scarcely attended. Too much of the film is spent watching them travel, shop and worry about scheduling. But the upside is wondrous, particularly Bichlbaum's CNBC appearance as a WTO spokesman (his ridiculous noms de incartade have a W.C. Fields-ian panache), straightfacedly spouting capitalist gibberish, and his lecture in Finland to an audience of European economists, which espoused the return of slavery and climaxed with the introduction of a gold "manager's suit," complete with 3-foot inflatable phallus. In our media-balkanized slipstream, The Yes Men can have the effect of a nurturing salve, merely by virtue of its heroes' eloquent anti-corporate ideas. Yet if The Yes Men seems to, in the end, only half-fulfill its own outrageous ambitions, then maybe that's because it feels like the first chapter – the initial salvo – of a far broader, far angrier and far more newsworthy protest process. It could be, perhaps, a weekly cable program – but of course the irony remains that the more famous the Yes Men might become, the less effective they'd be as surreptitious agents of public mockery. But perhaps not: theyesmen.org is an ongoing concern, enlisting thousands of new Yes Men to act on their consciences and do it with Voltairean flair. If you want more, sign up today. By Michael Atkinson July 20, 2004 http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/whe |
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