Review of Bread and Roses (2000) by Jack L — 14 Nov 2008
Pilar Padilla, George Lopez, and Adrien Lopez were particularly strong in this interesting movie. We all benefit in ways many of us don't appreciate from the hard work of labor unions over the past century.
This movie captures some important work done on behalf of service workers (janitors) more recently. At the same time, the movie oversimplifies the supposed "bad guys": supervisors, managers, and owners.
There are lots of decent folks in every aspect of the economic food chain, and those opposed to labor unions are not as simplisticly evil as this movie forces down our throats. Also, unions have, on occasion, used less-than-savory tactics to achieve some legitimate goals.
Finally, the globalized world makes the worker-owner relationship far more difficult to manage, and that is entirely missing from this film. We'll see how the automotive industry survives its current crisis, and from that we'll see how healthy the US labor movement is after all is said and done.
This review of Bread and Roses (2000) was written by Jack L on 14 Nov 2008.
Bread and Roses has generally received positive reviews.
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