The yes men is a really interesting and very entertaining documentary film about a group of activists who practice what they call identity correction. Pretty much they pretend to be important, powerful people for different organizations and go do appearances and lectures at different conferences all over the world. They speak about their ideas that corporations and government organizations sometimes will act in dehumanizing ways towards the public. They do this quite often bringing along crazy over the top props. The whole film documents from when they get certain speaking engagements, their preparation for the presentations, the presentation itself, and finally their response to how everything went. They put so much time and energy into it each time, you can definitely tell how passionate they are about what they do and the message that they are attempting to get out. One of the ones that sticks out to me the most is when they have a whole gold phallic outfit made for one of the men. They go to so much trouble to figure out someone to make this outfit and figuring out how to wear it under a suit to figuring out how to get the suit off and get their point made with this outfit. For another presentation, they bring mcdonalds food for everyone there.
The first one that they are pretending to be is they are pretending to be representatives of the world trade organization. I thought that was really interesting. I also thought that they did a really interesting job with the mcdonalds one. It was so entertaining watching the people in the audiences responses to what they were saying. You could tell that some people were even getting mad. It was interesting to watch these people trick all of these people. It was one of those things that while watching you just couldn’t look away. It kept your full attention the entire time, just taking everything in and attempting to guess what would happen next; what they would come up with next even though you knew that there was no way that you could. This documentary was one like I have never seen before but one that I would definitely recommend to other people to watch just because it is so crazy and unpredictable and entertaining. I just couldn’t believe some of the things that were happening in it. I sometimes felt myself thinking that there was no way that this was actually real. Like this couldn’t be a documentary, but simply a narrative film. But no, these things actually happened and that makes the film that much more engaging. It is a film that seems to totally hook its viewers if just for the simple fast that it is entertaining and also brings up some very interesting issues in a one of a kind way. These people are definitely getting their opinions out there and known about.
Our assignment 6 is the found footage/ recontextualization assignment. It relates to the yes men because there were parts of the yes men documentary film that had to have been pulled from different places, not just from when they were filming for the documentary. Like, there were clips that they used in one of their presentations and a few other parts of the film seemed to fit in well with the film but could very well have been footage from interviews and stuff. There were also parts where they were watching the tv…I don’t know if that would be considered found footage but I think it would be.
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