Documentary Analysis: King Corn

King Corn is a documentary about two friends, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, and their one acre of corn. The film start off with these pair of best friends moving, from New York City, out to Iowa to learn where food and there roots comes from. Thanks to a friendly farmer, they get a acre of land to grow their corn. When they tried to follow there corn into the food system, they lost track of it in the town corn storage unit. They learned that the corn they grow tasted nasty and almost uneatable. The only way to actually eat it was to process it into fruits corn syrup, is an ingredient found in most, cheap, food.

From there the film shows the current state of the farming community. The original farm was the type of farm we learned about in