Tyrannosaurus

Written and directed by Paddy Considine Tyrannosaurus (2011)  is an extremely disturbing and gritty movie. This movie does not sugar coat anger or play into the commercial anger induced violence often assimilated in today's less talk more punch and kick action movies. The anger, the violence, the rage feel heartbreakingly real. Joseph brilliantly portrayed by Peter Mullen is an enraged, unemployed, violent, widower. He reacts to any situation he is unhappy in, with unbridled violence. The opening sequence where he kills his dog with one angry kick, then portrays heartfelt sorrow at it's death, is pivotal. This sums up the character of Joseph, sensitive beyond the rough edged exterior, but sensitive to a point. His sorrow at the loss of the dog and his continued turmoil, in a moment of grief filled weakness  brings him into the Christian Charity store run by Hannah (brilliantly played by Olivia Colman). After being abrupt and rude to her, a  mannerism he wears like a second skin, Joseph grows to accept her within the confines of an uneasy friendship.
From a well off neighbourhood, Hannah continues to work at the Christian Charity store,  but is ridiculed for her hypocrisy and affluent misgivings of wealth by Joseph. Yet she too bears poignant scars she seems to hide well.
The movie tries to unmask society for us, tries to make us understand that the angriest person in the room may not hold as many secrets or harbor as vivid a scar as the one borne by the quietest or the most silent.
Even through it's gray mood, the movie lulls us briefly, a sense of temporary happiness presides over the funeral reception for Joseph's best friend.
The residual characters are either victims or prisoners of rage, they orbit around the general arena of its dark stage.
With this movie it dawned on me that people like Peter the rudest, most violent person around has less to hide than the silent, passionate person in the corner, he is able to act out his emotions instantly often with disastrous consequences rather than bear it game facedly and fester. Even through the darkness of this movie there is a silent lesson being played out even though it may be difficult for us to understand or accept.

Food Inc.

Directed by Robert Kenner, http://robertkennerfilms.com/home_return.html Food Inc. is a theatrical documentary that was directed in 2008. It deals with one basic necessity of life we take for granted-Food. From searching for Food in our early prime (al) days we evolved into gatherers, hunters,and eventually to the growers of growers of crop for sustenance, and the domesticators of animals for meat and dairy products. The documentary questions with knowledgeable and well researched audacity our complacency as food imbibers, our lethargy in deconstructing the truth of Food and it's origin, or manifesting the crop or meat from just an earthly, time consuming organic process and hard labour. 

Today the Food we eat, is a mass produced embodiment churned off assembly lines, the product of a highly shrink wrapped meat product industry. An industry where the cluster of hooves, beaks and wings are just squawking, mooing spokes that herald the timed wheels of their own lives and deaths, motorised products and by-products entrusted with the responsibility and need to feed- US.

The modernisation and industrialisation of the Food industry has borne caustic results.

This documentary deals with the assembly style mass production of meat which has led to the transmutation and progression of various food borne diseases.
It talks about the health hazards that trickle down to everyday consumers, with one heart breaking story of a two and a half year old boy named Kevin who contracts and succumbs to a severe form of E-coli after eating contaminated hamburgers.
His grandmother and mother have since petitioned the need for more stringent food inspection standards under Kevin's Law
An excerpt from Wikipedia details Kevin's Law as a 'Law which would strengthen the U.S. government's ability to prevent contaminated meat and poultry from entering the food supply by :

Requiring the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to identify the pathogens that threaten human health (e.g Salmonella, E. coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes).

Requiring the USDA to establish performance standards to reduce the presence of these pathogens in meat and poultry.

Confirming that the USDA has the authority to enforce its own standards by shutting down plants that continually breach basic health standards. Courts have held that the USDA does not have this authority in the absence of explicit authorising legislation

Corporate meat processors have lobbied against Kevin's Law, arguing that it would increase the cost of food and is unnecessary'

The documentary talks about how controlled the Processing of Meat actually is, how it drives the micro economies of farmers, how it enforces upon the farmers regulations that will increase output, mechanise production and cull livestock. It talks about the financial burdens farmers are coerced into, by requiring them under contractual obligations to purchase newer models of equipment, adapt their farms to purchase or develop updated production facilities or further modify under duress their crop growing process.
No matter how expensive or anti-hygienic a style of farming this vicious cycle may induce all it does is manufacture debt. Some numbers that creep up are $280,000 -$560,000 US Dollars, a value that strains the already debt burdened farmer to try even harder to generate bigger zeroes on their balance sheets, in the quantity of crop they farm, or the livestock that they breed to cull. Big money curtains progress and scales light the lives of the smaller. 
On the flip side it turns on its head the myth about big brand companies and the danger of society and small business locking arms with them.
It exemplifies how an organic produce company can team up with the anti-establishment nemesis (two negatives anyone) and still emerge with a positive outcome- a mass marketed, extensively shelf spaced routing for an otherwise selective, niche marketed, environmentally responsible product.
It talks about Corn being an ingredient that fuels the Fast Food economy, it fosters slowly the fact that Corn is in some form or the other present in a major percentile of retail product from diapers to a large swathe of processed food groups. Heavily subsidised it is cheap fodder that fattens livestock, yet in the same feed form it introduces micro parasites into the ecological food chain. Keeping the tradition of subsidised farming heavily active it caters in various derivative based forms largely to the Fast Food and Processed Foods industry keeping costs artificially low and affordable to the poor and working class. More affordable, as captured in the movie through a low income class family's grocery shopping experience than fresh grocery produce.  Cheaper than fresh groceries thereby it increases slowly its claw hold in our food intake, creating diabetics, diseased and obese amidst us. Below is a link one onion layer deep, in revealing the density of corn based food in our grocery aisles and diet.
http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/07/my-week-without-corn-agriculture-health-environment.html
 http://www.takepart.com/foodinc/
In the end, my perception is that the documentary talks broadly about power the direction it can lead us in while wanting us to believe that this power is being wielded in good faith.