Vucic State of Play

The problem with major corporations today is that they have a disproportionate amount of influence on our political system. Corporations and the financial power that they have can through huge sums of money behind political campaigns, asking in return for certain privileges or benefits that can be given to them. Political candidates who receive large amounts of funding from corporations then feel obligated to help them out when they are seated in a position of power. What can further complicate things is that in some instances, like PointCorps. in the film State of Play, can act as monopoly’s, gaining more and more power and money with each other smaller corporation it sucks up. PointCorps. acts as the major corporation in the film and we find out much about it in the scene where Cal and Della interrogate Dominic, a member of PointCorps. Essentially what we discover is that PointCorps. is so powerful that they are able to hire spy’s to kill people who pose a threat to the future of their corporation. Corporations are able to provide large amounts of money to political campaigns so it would seem only natural that a candidate would pay more attention to them then to the regular person. The problem is that whats best for the corporation is not whats always best for the nation as a whole. Its a very slippery slope because many politicians rely on the backing of corporations in order to get elected, knowing that without their help they wouldn’t stand a chance. This is the reason for the recent campaign spending acts that have been passed by the supreme court to try and put a cap on this problem.