Cassimere State of Play

In the film State of Play, the company Pointcorp is said to be able to “do whatever the hell they want.” They company is planning to centralize homeland security by acting without jurisdiction or approval from the public. The company undermines democracy by going around the system put in place to protect our rights and represent the views of the majority. Since Pointcorp is a company, it can act as an individual, which means that whatever they do, the public does not have to approve or even know about. In the scene where Cal finds out that Pointcorp gains around $40 billion a year from the war in the Middle East and from their domestic operations. When Cal speaks to his unnamed source at the fish market, he realizes that this company is involved in much more than the public is currently aware of and that it can essentially do whatever it wants. The main goal of this company is, of course, making a profit. In this scene, Cal realizes that Pointcorp can and will do everything in its power for this purpose. This fact is scary, especially since it almost means that the American government is going behind the backs of its people in order to be able to do what they feel is necessary in order to protect the country.