The East

Professional integrity lands itself a high-level covert assignment, full of danger and risk, wherein it must clandestinely adjudicate its broad range of astute sociological reflexes to infiltrate a stealth pack of humanistic hyperreactivists and expose their audacious whereabouts.

She finds them far too easily, but after coyly yet adhesively nestling, finds herself inductively considering their proactive cause, which seeks stricter much more effective regulations regarding the ways in which big business generates profit.

She works for a rather big business herself and must come to terms with its motives as she becomes increasingly integrated in both domains.

Her partner is frustrated.

Her conscience is bifurcated.

Friendships coalesce.

She is neither arrogant nor weak.

The East melodramatically yet crucially materializes the dissonant underground social dynamics of altruistically pursuing game changing objectives (the comments made by the underground collective occasionally seem at odds with their ethical ideals), bringing some of Terry Eagleton's arguments to life, without shying away from juxtaposing economic with ethical impoverishment.

The scene where Izzy's (Ellen Page) estranged parent jumps in the toxic sludge works well.

Laws can be made to correspond to the goals fought for in this film.

Made and enforced.

Check out Vincent Lam's Tommy Douglas, part of Penguin's Extraordinary Canadians series, and find out what the CCF party did for ordinary hard working citizens of Saskatchewan in a relatively short period of time, when a lot of people thought nothing could be done.

They enacted social democratic change while balancing the budget.

They proceeded cautiously and soundly to legitimize their movement's thrust.

Not that easy to do of course, but there are people all over the world who become rather upset when their water supply turns carcinogenic.

It's just common sense.