Post by Capo on Jul 22, 2007 23:51:52 GMT
Bread and Roses
Ken Loach 2000 UK / France / Germany / Italy / Spain / Switzerland
Mexicans in LA working as janitors form a union to fight for economic justice.
Loach takes an explicit stab at corporate America here, and the exploitation of immigrant workers, with subtler attacks on Hollywood itself, in a rather amusing scene in which the workers hijack a party with famous actors in attendance. It manages to be a captivating, persuasive film without getting too preachy--the one time it does, the emotional revelation is powerful indeed; it is a bit muddled in its scene-to-scene juxtaposition between political and personal, but sensibly doesn't try to mix both at once.
Ken Loach 2000 UK / France / Germany / Italy / Spain / Switzerland
Mexicans in LA working as janitors form a union to fight for economic justice.
Loach takes an explicit stab at corporate America here, and the exploitation of immigrant workers, with subtler attacks on Hollywood itself, in a rather amusing scene in which the workers hijack a party with famous actors in attendance. It manages to be a captivating, persuasive film without getting too preachy--the one time it does, the emotional revelation is powerful indeed; it is a bit muddled in its scene-to-scene juxtaposition between political and personal, but sensibly doesn't try to mix both at once.