Shop 'Til You Drop: The Crisis Of Consumerism (2010) (trailer)
Are we too materialistic? Are we willfully trashing the planet in our
pursuit of things? And what's the source of all this frenetic consumer
energy and desire anyway? In a fast-paced tour of the ecological and
psychological terrain of American consumer culture, Shop 'Til You Drop
challenges us to confront these questions head-on. Taking aim at the
high-stress, high-octane pace of fast-lane materialism, the film moves
beneath the seductive surfaces of the commercial world to show how the
flip side of accumulation is depletion -- the slow, steady erosion of
both natural resources and basic human values. In the end, Shop 'Til You
Drop helps us make sense of the economic turbulence of the moment,
providing an unflinching, riveting look at the relationship between the
limits of consumerism and our never-ending pursuit of happiness.
