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I ought to diary it but I'm terrible at retaining the details needed, could give it a go though if anyone is bothered.

I really enjoyed it and especially liked the mix of languages which meant that half of it was subtitled!

I found it very gritty, real - Ken Loach's trademark style.  It was also powerful not in a we won in the end way but by showing the reality of daily life for Mexican immigrants and how appalling conditions at work are for them and how this impacts on the home life, living on poverty wages with no healthcare or pensions. Then the huge resistance to unions on part of the employers, obviously, but also the fear on part of the workers, making it so hard for the unions to find their way in.
When they finally won, that telephone call to the jail cell seemed too neat but I won't get picky on that. It was an excellent film.

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 at 03:15:23 AM EST
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yeah, it was the best kind of documentary/entertainment, showing very clearly the tensions that shopfloor life can create, and how unions have to fight so hard to do their valuable work.
i agree about the ending, btw.

if anyone could write a meaningful diary about unions and cinema, it'd be you.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 at 04:19:56 AM EST
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