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"It shines with raw wit and originality."— Newsweek

"Comedic vigilante justice… Media-savvy pie-to-the-face."USA Today

YES MEN FIX THE WORLD
Jan 4- 11, 13

 
 

January 4, 6, 7: 6.30pm, 8.15
Jan 8, 12, 14: 8.15 only.
Sat Jan 9: 5.00pm, 8.30.
Sun Jan 10: 5.00pm only
Jan 11, 13: 6.30pm only.

Directors: Andy Bichbaum, Mike Bonanno // USA 2009 // 87 min

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"Corporate greedheads can see Michael Moore lumbering toward them from miles away, but the politically progressive pranksters the Yes Men—back in their second film, the outrageously entertaining The Yes Men Fix the World—are clean-cut fellows who slip right into the business milieu. Like Sacha Baron Cohen, they specialize in gulling the unsuspecting, but their agenda isn't rooted in humiliation. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are earnest crusaders with two ends. The first is to take what they see as the capitalist credo (profit over human life), reduce it—in the manner of Swift's "A Modest Proposal"—to its despicable essence, and watch as rows of convention-going free-marketers nod at their refreshingly inhumane proposals. The second—more exhilarating—is to impersonate honchos and behave as they think corporations, in an ideal world, would. Their fake capitalists proclaim, "To hell with what's profitable, let's do what's right!"—and watch the markets react with horror. Glorious testimony to the moral power of satire." - David Edelstein, NY Magazine

"Great fun! It takes some nerve, not to mention diabolical intelligence... to pull off the elaborate pranks devised by the Yes Men."—New York Times


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BBC interview with directors Andy Bichbaum and Mike Bonanno- Part I and Part II

 

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