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...rooms in the three-story "hotel" wing are identical--clean, simple and separate from the monks' cells. There is no telephone, carpet or television set, just a small wooden cross above a pine writing desk, a washbasin, a curtained closet, a small bed and a reading light. The bathrooms are at the end of the corridors. Guests are asked to keep their rooms and the bathrooms clean and to help with the dishes after each meal...
...finally handed in the thesis an hour and a half late. I slammed it down on the desk of the receptionist, I turned around and there was a bouquet of flowers waiting from my thesis advisor," he said. "I had this terrific feeling of warmth and generosity for all people. I just started bestowing favors on everybody...
...Moore repeats this theme relentlessly, riding roughshod over dozens of helpless front desk PR agents whom he harasses in his 90-minute film. Structured around the seedy corporate book tour and Moore's Downsize This!, interspersed with discontinuous side trips to local, downsizing Fortune 500 companies, The Big One wears Moore's economics thin. He asks the same questions over and over. Moore bullies unsuspecting PR men and security guards, apparently forgetting how similar these representatives are to the laid-off workers Moore unquestioningly hugs throughout the movie. When talking to workers, Moore is a Sunday school teacher; when talking...
...Michael Moore gave after the Institute of Politics (IOP) Forum screening of The Big One, he said he thought corporate America was operating with a "get rich quick now" philosophy. Well, Moore is operating with a "get to the moral high ground now" philosophy. Taking the stammerings of front desk receptionists for the authentic response of corporate America, Moore blames big businesses' lack of eloquence on their "indefensible position." But when a Law School student asked Moore whether what he was advocating would lead to Western Europe's inflated economic mess, Moore was only able to get out that Europe...
...then took evasive action. "I tried to remedy the Ridge," she claims, "but it was too deep." As Yin gives her explanation, she reaches into her desk drawer and brandishes a large pair of scissors--though not the same instrument of evil that created the Ridge. "Sarah," she says nonchalantly, "you have a weird long hair." Kennedy feels for the rogue strand, and then Yin reaches over to cut it. The cycle continues...