The Koch Brothers Film Analysis
I. Summary One of the main points brought up is how income inequality is getting worse and worse. The Koch brothers were raised in a rich discriminating household. Their father owned the oil empire, putting 100 billion dollars in the Koch brother’s pockets making them rich oil barons. In general, the Koch brother’s want to buy America by paying others to listen to them and bribing council members with money for a total of at least 400 million dollars. From 2010 to 2014, the Koch brother’s spent at least 144 million on ads. In 2009 they tried to resegregate a county’s public school system. They wanted to create segregated neighborhood school, which in the end would dismantle the whole public school system. Another thing the Koch brother’s
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Before watching the documentary I didn’t know much about the Koch brothers and how much a couple individuals can impact the rest of us within the United States in such a tremendous way. They are rich people that want to make sure that they are as happy as possible. Not worrying or caring about any other individual, but themselves and their own beliefs. So the Koch brothers will do anything and everything that they are capable of doing to make sure that what they want is the outcome of what we get. This movie gave me a different perspective on those with money and how they’re willing to affect everyone else for their own personal beliefs and profit. The documentary had many strengths from how they adjusted from idea to idea showing all the impacts of each belief the Koch brothers have and all the different impact their beliefs have on us due to the amount of money they process. The film, overall, made me pretty angry that someone with as much money as the Koch brothers have, would care so little about the rest of the population. Polluting other people’s neighborhoods, killing other people’s families, ruining cities, and numerous other aspects of life that have been destroyed by the Koch brothers are all characteristic that affect a tremendous amount of people. It proved to me how false someone could be about what is being said and exactly what they mean by what they are saying. After watching this documentary it forced me to feel like I need to get more involved and speak my beliefs more so the near future is not ran by bias opinions towards a group of people especially the working
Before watching the documentary I didn’t know much about the Koch brothers and how much a couple individuals can impact the rest of us within the United States in such a tremendous way. They are rich people that want to make sure that they are as happy as possible. Not worrying or caring about any other individual, but themselves and their own beliefs. So the Koch brothers will do anything and everything that they are capable of doing to make sure that what they want is the outcome of what we get. This movie gave me a different perspective on those with money and how they’re willing to affect everyone else for their own personal beliefs and profit. The documentary had many strengths from how they adjusted from idea to idea showing all the impacts of each belief the Koch brothers have and all the different impact their beliefs have on us due to the amount of money they process. The film, overall, made me pretty angry that someone with as much money as the Koch brothers have, would care so little about the rest of the population. Polluting other people’s neighborhoods, killing other people’s families, ruining cities, and numerous other aspects of life that have been destroyed by the Koch brothers are all characteristic that affect a tremendous amount of people. It proved to me how false someone could be about what is being said and exactly what they mean by what they are saying. After watching this documentary it forced me to feel like I need to get more involved and speak my beliefs more so the near future is not ran by bias opinions towards a group of people especially the working