In this task, you are given product reviews about dvds. The goal is to classify the review as "POS" if the overall sentiment of the review is positive(the reviewer is satisfied) or as "NEG" if the overall sentiment of the review is negative(the reviewer is not satisfied).

Skewed Perspectives, great if you are determined to hate Wal-Mart . I watched this movie with no particular bias about Wal-Mart. I understand this movie is made in the same way political ads are, where they try really hard to skew the facts to make the viewer have an emotional reaction to the half of the story that is provided. I think that for most people it is highly effective, but it didn't work for me. I think this is an excellent movie to show as an example of skew, perspective, and propaganda. When they talk about the sweatshops in China and Honduras I found myself --though I dont envy the workers-- laughing at the movie. I used to live in China and I have been to many factories and the conditions that they make seem exclusive are universal over there. It is the film makers and then the ex-employees (and they are assuming the viewers) who are putting their cultural assumptions about how sad it is that they work so hard and get paid so little, but in other countries that is a fact of life that has nothing to do with Wal-Mart. That is a cultural and governmental problem within the countries where the factories exist, not only a problem with Wal-Mart. The movie also discuss how Wal-Mart employees are a burden to the government because of the fact that Wal-Mart pays very little and then suggests that it's employess go on public assitance, but the truth is that is the same for the fast-food companies and everywhere else that pays minimum wage and offers little benefits. I do believe Wal-Mart should morally proivide their employees with more wages and provide more full-time positions, but that is a business culture that expands well past Wal-Mart. I am a teacher who cannot work more than 17 hours a week so they do not have to give me benefits, but I don't see anyone trying to make movies to ban schools.
NEG