Dispatches from Darrell » Christmas http://darrellbuchanan.ca discourse, dialogue, and dialectic Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 What Would Jesus Buy? http://darrellbuchanan.ca/2009/12/09/what-would-jesus-buy/ http://darrellbuchanan.ca/2009/12/09/what-would-jesus-buy/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:39:16 +0000 Darrell Buchanan http://www.darrellbuchanan.ca/?p=383 Continue reading →]]> What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir as they take a cross-country trip in the month prior to Christmas 2005, and spread their message against what they perceive as the evils of patronizing the retail outlets of several different large corporate chains.

Don’t let the irreverent comedy in this film sidetrack you from its provocative examination of the commercialization of Christmas, materialism,  over-consumption, globalization, and the business practices of large corporations.

Directed by Rob VanAlkemade and produced by Morgan Spurlock.


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