The Yes Men Fix the World

“The Yes Men Fix the World” is a documentary created by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (The Yes Men) to showcase their over the top adventures of using the media to convey a message to the people. These adventures expose the truth of big companies accidents or faults. Bichlbaum and Bonanno use and manipulate the media to have the truth about these companies shown. This film was shot and edited in a chronological order and showed the acts of Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno over time. Because of this particular structure, the film is well conveyed and the point of the film is brought to attention by following the thoughts and processing to Bichlbaum and Bonanno’s large plans.

This documentary would be considered an observational documentary with aspects of an expository documentary. The film would be observational because the viewer follows Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno around which would be called the “fly on the wall” effect. The viewer is able to see the situation as if they were following around Bichlbaum and Bonanno. The elements of an expository documentary come in because the film almost tells the viewer how they should feel about the situation. The film was biased in the sense that the film had only taken opinions from people who had agreed with The Yes Men’s opinions. Never was there an opinion from the companies that the film was based on. The perspective of the film was through the lives of The Yes Men and showed their personal opinions and followed their travels.

The film “The Yes Men Fix the World” some great strengths. One of these strengths would have to be that this film clearly shows the public what these large companies are doing and how they are obviously not doing the right things. Secondly, The Yes Men show the public what kind of world we could live in. By doing this, people begin to question why we do not live in such a magnificent world that The Yes Men create. One scene that is very thought provoking was closer to the end of the movie where The Yes Men had printed their own version of the New York Times and distributed this paper throughout New York. The Yes Men had used the media to get their message out to the public. They knew that if they were to release that newspaper, they would just have to sit back and relax and watch the media create the story to be so big.

A film like “The Yes Men Fix the World” has a great value in our culture. There are many positive and negative outcomes from a film like this. An example of a positive outcome is that people are able to recognize the horrible things these companies are doing. People also begin to see the world that they could be living in and begin to question why they do not live in such a world, which would be another positive outcome. A negative outcome of a film like this would be that it gives some people false hope. An example of this is when the people who were effected by the chemical explosion. They had believed that they were finally going to receive help, but then were quickly told it was a lie and the statement was false. Overall, this movie conveyed a great message and should be seen by everybody.