In another sense, though, the movie is all about antitrust. Moreover, in so doing it was not necessarily actuated by economic motive alone. It is possible, because of its indirect social or moral effect, to prefer a system of small producers, each dependent for his success upon his own skill and character, to one in which the great mass of those engaged must accept the direction of a few. It's evil because it will not share its source code, because its products are inferior copies, because it is able to seduce the best minds into the corporate maw, because it is so big and dominant. Of course, this conclusion is a bit overdetermined, given that NURV also spies on its competitors, steals their ideas, and kills them.
Big business is cast as the evil antagonist in countless films.
This, of course, is a delicious irony, since the Hollywood studios are themselves the very epitome of big business bullies. As a thought experiment, try to think of a movie that deals with big business that doesn't treat it as evil incarnate. In recent films, take The Insider, which cheerfully trashes both the tobacco and television industries, or The Rainmaker, savaging both the insurance industry and big law firms. Taking a step back in time, recall such stridently anti-business films as Wall St. , Network , Silkwood, Norma Rae , or The China Syndrome.