I'm really craving a big fat juicy burger after watching this

I hit up Wendy's right after

The film reminded me of a law school exam and how to fail it. To be precise you would probably get a 60 or so, but no more. You would get that far on the raising issues part. But you would go no farther since you failed to dispose of the issues.

I suppose the filmmakers would say they had no easy answers to any of the issues raised, and I get that part. Yes, one can see this as an indictment of not only the fast food industry, but of society's relationship, especially American society's relationship in the macroeconomic sense, to that industry. But there is not even a scintilla of an answer suggested. I suppose a simple answer might seem don't eat fast food, but really, what does that accomplish? Nowhere for those employed in the industry to work?

Even in the case of the Amber character, on one hand you root for her to get out of Cody and get her college degree. But as Ethan Hawke's character's semi-buzzed rant refers to, at some point she will be past any "revolutionary" fervor. In the moment she has that. But where effectively to take it? Even the cows seem too lethargic and content to understand their interests.

All we end up being is disgusted by shocking images mixed in with the mundane. One's choices are to be disheartened by the images, or to dismiss them on a number of levels.