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Blood In The Mobile Film Analysis

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‘Blood In The Mobile’ is a documentary filmed my Danish journalist Frank Poulsen regarding the use of conflict minerals in our mobiles by major phone manufacturing companies. Even though he focuses on Nokia in the movie it is an insight into the use of blood minerals from Congo in all phones of other manufacturing companies as well. The film focuses on whether Nokia has known about this use and still continues to do it and to find a solution to this problem in order to end modern day slavery just so that we can stare at a screen throughout the day. In the documentary Poulsen travels to various destinations including one of the mines in Congo to uncover the harsh truth behind one the most revolutionary modern day inventions and whether its consumption is being used to finance a war... …show more content…

Many of the employees keep beating around the bush with respect to their answers and defend their company, stating that all its practices are ethical and legal. He even interviews the head of Corporate Social Responsibility who acknowledges the problem and says that there is ‘no way to trace the minerals back to the mines that they come from.’ Nokia in its annual reports and on its website claims to be a market leader in Corporate Social Responsibility and Conscious Capitalism but these claims are mostly fabricated. These are simply words on a piece of paper to convince consumers that the product they’re buying is blood free and ethical when in reality this couldn’t be further from the truth. Several NGOs that were also interviewed by Poulsen confirm this fact and state that even though they’ve had the knowledge of the existence of this problem for ten years they have done more or less nothing to even take steps toward solving this problem simply because it will cost them money and diminish their

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