Shopaholics, brand fans, obsessive and gullible addicts in general - this series is for you.
A good surprise awaits you on Netflix.
The series "BROKEN" asks what is the real price of the products we buy.
It's not the price tag that interests Nega Nir Naaman and the consumer reporters, but the severe social, sometimes health consequences and the peripheral damage that our addiction to products causes.
"Broken", photo: Netflix
Did you buy that IKEA sells us design at a reasonable price?
Did you buy the promise that vaporized smoking products are less harmful?
Are you addicted to buying makeup products online?
Ask for a replacement note.
This is an activist docu reminiscent of the also excellent "ROTTEN" on Netflix, and leaves you shocked and rightly suspicious.
Like a public broadcasting corporation in a perfect world, freed from cable and capitalist interests, Netflix takes care (in a positive way) of four industries that have taken over our lives.
Start straight from the third and best episode in the series, in which the IKEA dresser and the entire cheap furniture industry that exacts a price on the soul and the environment is at the center of the discussion.
"Ikea" is facing a consumer and environmental trial for its ability to sell us short-lived furniture.
Chests under which babies are buried that would have been saved if only it had been made of better quality wood.
"Broken", photo: Netflix
Precisely against the background of our discussion about the excessive use of disposable utensils in the ultra-orthodox sector, I moved uncomfortably at the sight of entire forests being cut down in favor of beds and wardrobes with strange Swedish names.
"Broken", photo: Netflix
The cheap cosmetics industry is also preying on the use of unsupervised substances.
Another chapter is dedicated to the danger of vaping products and the marketing manipulations that turn users into addicts, while another chapter is dedicated to the entire world of recycling, some of whose agendas should have been thrown into the orange bin a long time ago.
It turns out that Netflix, the monster that everyone likes to criticize and come to with complaints, also knows how to do something positive with its money.
That is, ours.
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