Very early in Wasted! The Story of Food Waste, a documentary that stars the celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, a man with a thick European accent says all that needs to be said about the state of the world we live in: “We do not need to produce more food, we need to act different.” But why is so much food wasted in the first place? Because, as Marxists know, there is money to be made from waste. Capitalism can’t survive in a society that’s actually efficient and resourceful. The moment everyone in the United States does what many of the people in this documentary suggest we do (“use everything and wasting nothing,” “turn waste into electricity,” “feed pigs our waste,”), you fundamentally have a new economy. The documentary has lots of facts about how much we throw away, and how that garbage contributes to global warming and the destruction of ecosystems. The film has its visual moments (I have never seen waste look so good), but it uses the drone a little too much. When it comes to cinema, drones must be used only when there is no other way to shoot a situation. by Charles Mudede