After watching the new movie Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices, people will have three different reactions. Most will probably walk away with new information and a different perspective on Wal-Mart and other such stores. Some will doubt the information having been critics of what they call Michael Moore’s style of “bias propaganda”. Others will walk away scratching their heads thinking “yeah, but it’s cheap, and that’s all I can afford”. My hope for everyone that ends up watching this deep and interesting documentary is that you come out as the first kind of person. I hope that this brilliant documentary maker’s efforts don’t go unnoticed.

His name is Robert Greenwald and the other movie you might have seen him do is Outfoxed. He has a very personal style that gets to your sympathetic and emotional side; the way he does interviews makes you really feel for the victims and feel their plight. He also edits his movies very interestingly, putting in heavy facts during actual footage of the antagonists’ speeches, making you want to hear what they will say next, while at the same time contrasting what they are saying against the horrific numbers that just flashed on screen.

My personal reaction of the movie and the information was a little shocking, mainly at some of the statistics, but I knew most of the evils of Wal-Mart. I am not against the corporation model in the sense of economies of scale, but I am against greed. I am especially against greed that can see lives being lost but puts a very small price on those lives and therefore deems them unworthy of saving. When a company like Wal-Mart can boast record breaking profits and at the same time advise their employees to subscribe to welfare instead of giving them insurance, it just makes me sick. It makes me want to wait for the C.E.O of Wal-Mart, Lee Scott, in the parking lot of one of his stores, which do not surveillance or security, and give him a piece of my mind with my boot.

Anyhow, I encourage all of you out there to go and see this movie. It is out on DVD, which you can buy at www.walmartmovie.com or go see at the bridge and balboa theaters in San Francisco.