We: Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy, the Indian novelist and essayist known for her writing on globalization, war, and corporate power, provides the voice and argument for this essay film built around her ideas. Stock footage, animation, and original camera work are cut together to illustrate her case against the structures she sees running the modern world: militaries, multinational corporations, and the media systems that normalize both. The film moves fast, stacking image against image rather than building a single narrative thread, and the soundtrack pairs traditional Indian music with electronic production to match that pace. Roy's own words carry the argument, tying together examples of war profiteering, corporate land grabs, and state deception into a single indictment of how power actually operates. There is no on-camera interview format here; it plays more like an illustrated manifesto than a reported documentary, using Roy's writing as its spine.