Hope can be found in Michael Clayton

The character played by George Clooney in Michael Clayton helped restore my faith in humanity. Not only did these characters stress the importance of business ethics, but they also demonstrated that money should never be worth people’s lives. The character Arthur in the story, who is considered to be insane, is actually the most sane and most caring character in the movie. When he finally realized that defending a corporation that was killing hundreds of people, his ideas about money and power changed, and he decided to switch sides and sue the corporation who was creating toxic chemicals that were killing innocent farmers and people. This would be wonderful if this plot actually was similar to the events that go in the real world.
Sadly, every single day, there are attorneys who are masking and hiding detrimental news about the actions of corporations, regardless if the actions or products could potentially kill people. For dozens of years, tobacco companies paid their top attorneys millions of dollars to fight grassroots organizations who realized that severe side effects that come with smoking cigarettes.

It took many years for the tobacco companies to post just basic health warnings on their boxes, and it took even more years before it became illegal for tobacco companies to advertise on television. The attorneys that were covering the bad side effects of tobacco didn’t care that cigarettes were causing lung cancer, gum cancer, and even heart cancer in millions of people. All they cared about is that they were getting big bucks to protect these companies. Michael Clayton and Arthur in the move “Michael Clayton” should be role models for all business peoples in attorneys. They should be looked at as people whom realized that money is powerful, but it is not worth killing innocent people. This is a moral issue that people in privilege and power go through every single hour.