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THE YES MEN

This documentary directed by Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, and Chris Smith (the team responsible for American Movie) follows a small band of activists who’ve taken on the World Trade Organization. Pretending to be representatives from the WTO at conferences and on television, they offer increasingly absurd and offensive solutions to labor problems, but the joke appears to be on them when their recommendations are taken with utter seriousness. When one member turns up at a conference wearing a suit with a giant phallus attached and calls it the leisure suit of the future, no one bats an eye. The outrageousness of the Yes Men’s stunts is meant to show up the hypocrisy of the WTO; the reaction to these stunts shows how the WTO got to be what and where it is. Like Michael Moore, who makes a brief appearance, the Yes Men are promoting a specific political agenda, but unlike Moore, they manage to be hugely likable and engaging in the process, and without seeming self-serving. (83 minutes)

BY BROOKE HOLGERSON

Issue Date: October 1 - 7, 2004
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