Everyday Economic Issues In The Film Promised Land

Staring leading actor Matt Damon, the 2012 film Promised Land follows two corporate sales partners Steve Butler and Sue Thomason of a natural gas company who experience life-changing events after arriving in a small town where his cooperation wants to drill underground through a process called fracking into the available resources. This drama film portrays everyday economic issues of how big cooperation’s and townspeople deal with conflicts within their community. Throughout this film, it demonstrates the positive and negative aspects of the process called fracking, a procedure of drilling down into the ground where water, sand and chemicals are injected into a rock allowing gas to flow out. It highlights how corporates greed too frequently and capably overrides the public’s health and safety. I thought that Promised Land overall was a really good movie. It depicted the importance of fracking and the …show more content…
It illustrations how poor towns who are struggling financially can ultimately sell there lands and choose to make millions despite the negative consequences that can occur eventually. Fracking is the main ethical dilemma in this film because drilling for natural gas can be very dangerous and ultimately could produce many negative consequences as a result. The ethical dilemma involves the townspeople choosing whether or not to risk their health of their farms or choose money instead. Additionally, Promised Land does an excellent job of demonstrating two stakeholders, the saleswoman and the pro-drilling towns-people. In the film, the two salespeople make sales pitches to individual farmers by going door-to-door looking for their vote in the whole drilling process. In order to persuade their vote they try to throw a town fair to show the residents what it would be like with a lot of money, which once again demonstrates how corporations are willing to do