I came to this because its folded. It is consists of some unsophisticated notions about "them" corrupting food, some art about it, deliberately folded into the artifacts, a documentary about the making of that art, a profile of the artist, outside the documentary, a story of how "they" interpret the art as a murder plot and a documentary of that story.
And it has Tilda Swinton whose presence usually signals something profound.
But the film is too clumsy to do its work. You can roughly get the facts.
Its another case of an event that becomes caught up in forces no one controls... that finds its way into film by way of combat with similar forces. Those forces come from story threads, conventions, urges that this filmmaker is as helpless to control as the protagonist.
There's one interesting idea here. The character played by Tilda is the artist's wife, Hope. She is the genius of an art collaborative, who is not an artist herself in the sense of creating. She is the "explainer," who makes the collaborative work by providing the story hooks into what these guys do.
The story is triggered by her death. The authorities arrive and without her storyweaving ability, put together their own conspiracy about a conspiracy. This film could have used her.
This film could have been "The Lives of Others," with the Bush FBI in place of the Stasi.
Still, even if the film fails it is far, far more powerful a message than Moore could put together.
Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
