As the best full-length documentary at the Oscars of the year, in this turbulent 2020, it is a gift that impresses me the most. I am grateful in my heart to understand the reality through him before entering the society, but it is more after watching it many times. Anxiety caused.
First of all, the film provides a very interesting perspective. Chinese entrepreneurs rebuild factories in the once prosperous industrial cities of the United States. The former American dream has disappeared for workers in the rust belt. Facing the collectivization on the other side of the ocean, it has become a program-like China. It is not suitable to lead the American workers, which leads to the discussion of whether the proletariat has a motherland. If the facts are as Lenin said, then the American workers and Chinese workers should have the same purpose, to work for entrepreneurs in factories in exchange for compensation, but the film It is thought-provoking to try to explain this difference or why it cannot be united with the different cultural lifestyles of China and the United States. Second, if large companies such as the United States and Japan transfer their raw material and labor costs to East Asia as a matter of course, and capitalism is inherently the largest, then does it mean that Chinese entrepreneurs and capitalists are in the process of setting up factories in the United States to pay taxes and recruit American workers? Are the definitions similar? To what extent can collectivism and liberalism work under private ownership? Chinese workers sing factory songs at annual meetings in Chinese factories, and work is managed by collectivism. But do these give workers real benefits? American workers want high wages and want TV shows, but how to solve the contradiction between the freedom of individual workers and the pursuit of efficiency under capital?
In the labor union incident in the middle of the film, the director showed the labor union situation of the Chinese and American factories, which highlights the irony. The situation of the Chinese labor union cannot be detailed, but the free will of the American labor union to raise wages is undoubtedly in the eyes of a Chinese capitalist. It's ridiculous, because it's already a gift for me to come here to build a factory. You want more power when you create a union, but you want to be lazy and want to have your own American dream. But that's the point of the irony. Trade unions and workers' pursuit of power is a common occurrence in a socialist country, but no one ever mentions it, while American workers, who have grown up with free will, keep trying to build it. , although I understand that the American trade union is also an organization similar to a rogue society, but the above is enough magic reality.
At the end of the film, the most shocking automation strikes. The development of productivity is an unstoppable trend, and the working class is helpless in front of it. After so many ironies above, the last scene is enough to make people take a breath. , contentment with the status quo will inevitably be replaced by the progress of productivity, and the speed will be faster and faster in the future. The film will be in the form of a documentary from the end of this scene, but we as the audience, the same working class as in the film, should think about how to solve the problem. them. And the method may be in the Oscar-winning words of the director's team and in that unimagined path.
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