Andrew Brown
PR Writing
Seiferth
04/29/19
Analysis Paper
The purpose of this documentary is to change the way people look at bottled water. For many of us, we see bottled water as something disposable and plentiful. Rarely do the majority of people consider the amount of waste and harm associated with these bottles and the morals of the companies in charge. This documentary aims to bring light to these problems in hopes of swaying peoples bottled water consumption or their choice of which companies they 2 Nestle is fighting against these claims by saying that it is in their best interest to make sure that the water doesn’t run out because if it does, they won’t have anything to make money off of.
At first glance it makes sense, if they run an aquifer dry then they can’t bottle water and therefore cannot make any more. However, the documentarians argue that Nestle doesn’t care because they will just pack up and move to another area and exploit their cheap or free water sources. The people who made this documentary, while they seem reliable, make this video in a very biased way. Yes, they get the point of views from both sides of the argument but that’s not all good reporting is. One thing that stuck out as biased is that when they had a visual shot of Nestle’s headquarters, there was very intense, scary, “bad guy”, music playing to suggest that Nestle was in the wrong.
As I mentioned, they did a good job to get both sides of the argument and allow a somewhat equal time to display both but the methods used to display Nestle’s side came with a spin to make them look like the bad guys. Granted, this isn’t hard to do for Nestle but still it is something a good documentary should avoid doing. This documentary aims to serve the interest of citizens everywhere but more specifically those that live around Nestle plants. For instance, it was helping a lot of the North East states like Main where Nestle is overtaking and exploiting a lot of small towns and their outdated laws.
Not only was this affecting American towns, but also foreign ones like in India. There, a large population cannot find clean water and are stuck drinking dirty water that can get them sick. Nestle has bottling plants there that are extracting tons of water for virtually free and selling it back to this already struggling nation.
Overall, I think this was a very informational documentary that did a great job identifying both points of view. They could have done a better job portraying those different views and making it less bias but then again, it is hard to not make Nestle look like the bad guys in this situation.