Consumed (2015)

So much average

Absolutely brilliant

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

As someone who makes a lot of short films myself, I can say this is top notch with the budget they had to work with. As for the actual film, most films like this are documentaries, and I appreciate seeing it presented as an actual film. The documentaries exposing GMOs are great for facts, and this film manages to provide facts along with story. However, I do have a problem with the ending. I'm sorry, but no matter how you slice it I have zero sympathy for biotech CEOs, as they, in real life, don't care about their products. As someone with several pro-gmo "freinds", I can tell you they either fake support my decisions or they take a hard stance on it and refuse to look for any information, or only look at biotech funded "non-profits", the very pro-gmo US government, or universities like Cornell that receive heavy funding from biotech companies. Would give it a 10 if the CEO wasn't made into a sympathetic character, but still a great film.

Consumed, a film by Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones stars Lister- Jones as a single mom barely holding it together as she tries find out why her son has developed mysterious symptoms. Needless to say, the cause turns out to be "GMOs" even though not a single verifiable instance of any human or animal reaction to transgenic crops has ever been reported. The film contains every single anti-GMO trope you have ever heard, all of them wrong.Wein describes his film as a "political thriller," but "science fiction" might be a better label. The trouble is that good science fiction starts with actual science and extends it plausibly. This movie starts with bad science fears and continually hits you over the head with them. There has never been any reported evidence of any ill effect on humans or animals by any bio tech crop.The idea that "GMOs" are an ingredient rather than a breeding technique pervades the movie. And the mantra that there have "never been any human tests" repeats several times. Foods are never tested on humans, (as Katiraee explains) because you cannot control a human diet the way you can control lab animals' diets. The films also claims that there are only 90 day studies done and no long term studies have been done. This contradicts the well-known study by Snell and Bernheim, which did review many long term studies and concluded the 90-day studies were indeed sufficient. And, of course, van Eenenaam and Young's billion animal retrospective feeding study clearly show that there are no long term effects on using GM versus non-GM animals feeds.

Just about everything in this movie is totally accurate, especially the fact that in many countries it's the law to label GMO food, but not in the US. Of course the name of company is fake and a company man at the real Monsanto definitely didn't quit from learning the truth. I'm not sure about people getting rashes from GMO's but the studies with the rats having tumors half their size is real. The studies have been labeled as false because they weren't done by the all powerful corporate machine. The GMO henchmen and farmers getting sued by the company and losing everything because other GMO crops near by cross pollinated with their farms...unless they decide to use them themselves. For all of you that think this stuff is all fictional, please educate yourself by watching some documentaries on the subject. GMO OMG is probably the best one. It's done by an individual man and not funded by the corporations and there are plenty of facts along with interviews with farmers. It's on Netflix. Everyone has a right to know what we're eating.

Has anyone noticed that movies are becoming more and more "transparent "about whats really going on in the world? I've been aware about GMO's for about 15 years now and was surprised to find this movie to be very accurate about how conglomerates like Monsanto work. Every topic covered in this movie from the farmers in India to the "terminator seeds" (pattening life), the lobbying, and non- independent studies--all of it is actually true, and if you don't "think so" do some of your own research/"connecting dots". Ask yourself when did cancer become the norm? When did so much disease become the norm? They did leave one huge "dot" out however and that is the why? Whomever made this movie decided the population isn't ready for that truth yet, but this can easily be figured out if you do the research.