Reflection on the Flow: For Love of Water Film - Essay Example

Of importance to consider in the reflection is the film Flow: For Love of Water, which is the primary focus in addressing the above-mentioned issues as they come up in Session 21 (the movie review). Having reflected on the movie review and the ethical issues that come up in it, this section aims at exploring the issues that I found confronting and/or surprising, the extent to which I was persuaded and why, and the new things I learned from Session 21 that I have not thought about before. What I Found Confronting and What Surprised Me One of the things that I found quite challenging is the extent to which many stakeholders are ignored by their own systems of administration as they allow corporations to take over natural resources, which, as I understand now, cannot have a price tag on them. For instance, dumping animal remains in rivers and never minding to clean them up and evicting families from fertile land, where they survive, just to make a dam for water meant for sale is quite disheartening (Merin Para 4, 5).

What surprised me, however, is how we all think that we are not affected because we are so far away from Bolivia, Lesotho, China, and many other affected areas, little do we know of the globally extensive impacts that continue to haunt us today. Why I have Persuaded The perceptions developed in the movie are extremely captivating and greatly convincing for anyone that cares about other people, as opposed to those who are only driven by self-interest, and anyone who cares about natural resources, especially water.

Even those who are driven by self-interest should now, after reflecting on this session of even watching the film, be persuaded. One of the reasons I did not take much effort to persuade myself is the fact that I am personally affected by the continued privatization of water resources, which should never have a price on them. I have considered the amount of money I spend on water every day and decided that the price of water is not fair, at least, not with companies like Nestlé buying water resources in the wilderness and pumping at no taxes while they bottle it and sell it to us at exorbitant prices.

New Things As a person, I have always thought of bottled water as an advancement of the twenty-first century toward cleaner water. I have never thought about it from the perspective of the film. Following this reflection, however, I have learned that companies use us to make profits and we hardly realize it, and neither do we realize how they endanger us all through this deception. Comment The session has helped me to look at my workplace differently, which involves taking everyone’s concerns as my own as I might be the next.

This will also help in creating a better workplace and a collaborative effort towards working to change the few things we can while we still have a chance.