2024's Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy is a documentary about how branded companies supply ruses and duplicity to get you to purchase their goods no matter the cost or whether you need said goods or not. "It just becomes this cycle of pain." Oh yeah, true dat.
"Buy Now!", well it has interviews from people who worked at Adidas, Apple, and Amazon. Now those same people are pseudo whistleblowers, angered after leaving their corporations and venting as if they could taste their 15 minutes of fame. I mean I sure hope they got paid for exposing their cohorts now that they're out of a job. "They know you, like we know you". Uh, that's not dodgy at all.
So yeah, Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy is the antithesis to the concept of consumerism and the antiserum to the protection of the natural world. Just picture an ESPN, 30 for 30 episode but without the concept of sports. Just picture a warped-out, Peter Gabriel music video sans the Claymation. Just picture a cinematic acid trip complete with multiple facets of sensory overload. Just picture this, that, and just about everything else when it comes to the "pink elephant" conch that is "Buy Now!".
Sure the film feels one-sided and sort of fan-made when it comes to the wronged art of non-procuring. Sure there's this AI narration throughout that'll give you the ill at ease, creep-o alerts. And sure, "Buy Now!" doesn't have much of a narrative and/or structure, just a rinse, repeat cycle of accounts via some disgruntled workers on the corporate lam. Still, Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy is tantalizing in the way it distributes its rather cryptic info about scraps and detritus that tend to take our environment for a duff ride. Heck, it's the type of flick you could show agog high schoolers on Earth Day. Unix "conspiracy".
Written by Jesse Burleson
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