Lenin's Law
27th October 2006, 20:45
After watching the movie "Bread & Roses" it struck me as one of the very few "mainstream" films to really deal with the plight of working people in the US, currently. For those that haven't seen it or heard of it, without giving too much away, it is about a group of Mexican women who emigrate to the US, LA, to be exact and become janitors. They are contacted by a union representative (played by Adrien Brody) and he eventually convinces them to fight to unionize the workers in their building.
And it isn't just some fairytale - it goes into union-busting, what companies do to crush union-organizing movement and especially what they can do to so called "illegal" immigrants. I found it to be very realistic and very un-Hollywood. I believe that it was directed by Ken Loach, a British filmmaker with a leftist reputation. He made a film about the Spanish Civil War, Land and Freedom which I found to be very well made.
So those that have the seen the film, do you share the same positive opinion that I do or not? Provide reasons for both please.
And it isn't just some fairytale - it goes into union-busting, what companies do to crush union-organizing movement and especially what they can do to so called "illegal" immigrants. I found it to be very realistic and very un-Hollywood. I believe that it was directed by Ken Loach, a British filmmaker with a leftist reputation. He made a film about the Spanish Civil War, Land and Freedom which I found to be very well made.
So those that have the seen the film, do you share the same positive opinion that I do or not? Provide reasons for both please.