【影片簡介】香蕉啟示錄 Bananas!*
【正義思辨】篇 Ways to Justice
香蕉啟示錄
Bananas!*
瑞典、丹麥 Sweden - Denmark︱2009︱87 min︱Fredrik GERTTEN
2010 巴西 FICA 國際環保電影節觀眾票選獎
Audience Award, FICA, International Festival of Environmental Film and Video, Brazil
色澤金黃的香蕉一直是熱帶國家的甜美產物，然而它們卻藏著不為人知的秘密。三分之一生產香蕉的開銷都花費於農藥噴灑，大量的農藥危害著蕉農的生命。遠在中美洲的尼加拉瓜農民，正是其中的一群受害者。
美國古巴裔知名意外事故律師多明奎帶領十二位當地受害蕉農，對抗全球最大跨國水果企業都樂集團（Dole），控訴該公司持續使用已證實會造成不孕等徵狀的有毒農藥。香蕉一直以來是美國殖民主義的象徵，一如馬奎斯筆下的《百年孤寂》關於美軍血腥鎮壓蕉農暴動、蕉農為大量生產香蕉而吸入過度農藥死去的段落。書中的寓言到了今日，轉化為跨國資本企業對發展中國家的剝削。
瑞典導演葛登以北歐式的冷靜客觀帶領觀眾一同見證這場世紀訴訟，記錄第三世界公民起身反抗第一世界資本企業的過程。隨著資訊傳播的發達，此類事件的曝光不僅只於第三世界，成為跨國企業不得不面對的真相。
然而，在完成本片後，導演卻遭到都樂集團的打壓刁難，甚至提出抹黑告訴，身為紀錄片導演的葛登也不是省油的燈，順勢將此過程記錄下來，成為下部作品《正面蕉瘋》（Big Boys Gone Bananas!* ）。雙方的訴訟讓人不禁思考在遇上資本利益時，企業的社會良心究竟在哪？而處於劣勢的第三世界勞工是否有機會為自己奪回正義？
Bananas!* chronicles a landmark and highly controversial legal case pitting a dozen Nicaraguan plantation workers against Dole Food Corporation, Dole’s alleged usage of a deadly banned pesticide and its probable link to generations of sterilized workers.
Central to both the film and case is Juan “Accidentes” DOMINGUEZ, a Los Angeles-based personal injury attorney who, although iconic within the Latino community for his ubiquitous billboard ads, is unquestionably facing the biggest case and challenge in his career. As the legal representation on the first Nicaraguan
sterility case to be tried in US courts, DOMINGUEZ and his colleague, Duane C. MILLER, are breaking new ground. Theirs is a bellwether case: The first of thousands of cases awaiting trial in Nicaragua and the first legal case where foreign farm workers were allowed to testify against an American multinational corporation before a full jury on US soil. At stake are the futures of generations of workers, their families as well as the culture of global, multinational business.
If DOMINGUEZ is successful, it could rock the economic foundations of Dole and Dow, and would open the US courts to other global victims of US-based multinationals. It would represent a new day in international justice, and there are further cases of a similar nature coming up next in many jurisdictions.
Bananas!* is a suspenseful, layer-peeling, court room drama chronicle contextualized within the global politics of food and First vs. Third world dynamics.