01#"American Factory"#
I am fortunate enough to want to watch this movie because of the recommendation of my history teacher in history class. The background of this movie is the US economic crisis in 2008 and China's help to the US economy. All this happened in Fuyao, a factory that manufactures automotive glass. middle.
In this film, the differences between factories in China and the United States are compared repeatedly. The factories in the United States were inefficient when they first recovered, while Fuyao in China has a very complete production line with extremely high production efficiency. However, the living environment and working conditions of Chinese workers are completely unacceptable to the Americans. The high-pressure work style of 996 is also a major reason for China's high production efficiency. In the film, the Chinese also complained that "Americans are lazy, they don't want to work overtime at all.".
The climax of the film is the discussion between the two countries on whether companies should establish unions. The Chinese strongly oppose the establishment of unions, arguing that it will greatly reduce work efficiency, while Americans believe that unions are an indispensable part of the company. The disagreement between the two countries has caused great friction. A large number of American workers believe that their working environment is not good, and some people have been injured on the job, but there is no place and no one to speak for them, so the idea of union establishment is getting higher and higher, which brings a large number of demonstrations. . And Chinese managers will also covertly "deal with" those workers who are demonstrating and inefficient.
This film has always focused on the cultural differences between China and the United States. Culture shock has to be said to be a big selling point of this film. The film also always emphasizes "when in rome do as the romans do"
At the end, it also brings up a very interesting point worth thinking about: with the development of technology, robots will eventually replace workers, and the future of workers can be said to be uncertain, and it can also let us understand that the world's Change will always be in dynamic equilibrium.
(btw, this film is a documentary, in other words, all of this is real and happened, it is unclear whether those employees who were secretly fired can find a new place to survive this economic crisis, sigh~)
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