The True Cost is a documentary about how fast fashion is affecting the global economy and the natural world. The film explores the ramifications of huge corporations having monopolies on means of farming in locations where the manufacturing of clothing and the production of raw materials are outsourced. In India and Bangladesh, the farmland and areas local to manufacturing centers have deteriorated so terribly, where the people living on the land catch diseases, bathe in the filth of toxic chemicals, and are prone to soil ruined by the immense use of dangerous fertilizers. One of the sequences followed a doctor who presented a village, where the people were having the pigmentation of their skin destroyed and were affected by ailments such as jaundice, due to the resultant waste from factories. Another sequence which was incredibly striking was the textile workers in Cambodia protesting. The film elaborated on how the protesting turned into riots, for the Cambodian government were doing nothing about the issue. The riots went on for 2 days and the whole city of Phnom Penh was a battleground between the local government/police force. One person died during the riots, and a graphic display of a man covered in blood being lifted onto a cart to be taken to a hospital struck a chord with me that change is necessary. During the last moments of the documentary there was an interview with an economist, who detailed that the value based economic system has become inherently corrupt from a profit oriented mindset. To learn that fast fashion’s betterment lies under shifting the global capitalist machine is really intriguing and mind-opening. I have felt strongly over the past few years that global correspondence between humans all over the world is necessary for better quality of life. I found a lot of the thesis points and information agreeable to my thoughts and convictions.