A world-renowned consultant is lured out of self-imposed exile on a remote Greek island to expound on an ultimate marketing strategy to the members of the board of a multinational footwear corporation. As venal and disturbing as the strategy is, this 21st century "Prince" styles himself as an architect of neo-liberalism in its most shark-like incarnation. The only values he recognizes are those linked intimately to the profit principle. Cunning, pretentious, and deeply irreverent, he has created a marketing scheme that reduces human beings to pure consumer animals.
Corrosively satirical, The Parachute reveals an extreme society obsessed by mass consumption and instant gratification.
Corrosively satirical, The Parachute reveals an extreme society obsessed by mass consumption and instant gratification.
