The bizarre soundtrack and unique shots used in the film often make people unable to help but wonder about the director's expressive intentions.
For example, at the Spring Festival Gala-style tail-tooth banquet, the director spent quite a long time photographing the children in yellow chicken costumes who danced on the stage.
There is also an "indirect shot" of the child's shot. At Fuyao’s U.S. factory, TV sets in the lunch area have been showing Chinese children playing in recreational facilities—and American employees protested.
When it comes to "young" again, Chairman Cao explained to his subordinates in the trade union incident at the end of the film: recruit more new young people. The subtext is that younger Americans may care more about actual remuneration than associational rights, are easier to "govern," and are more "obedient."
Let's stop and think, is this possible? According to traditional thinking, the only possible operation is that Fuyao's investment is so large that it can start to spread its "unitized" management in the United States, starting from the education of employees' children, so that all employees, especially American employees, can spend their entire lives. Being incorporated into this "factory" system has taught them generation after generation from birth that "obedience" is the only right thing to do.
It is a pity that the whole set has failed in China, and of course it cannot work in a country like the United States, which is founded on resistance. At least for now.
The cheap sense of solidarity is shared around the world, and sensational means are hitting people's reason all the time - no nationality. The American manager who was moved to tears after attending a party in China returned to Ohio and soon wanted to practice what he saw in China. This seems to echo the "barriers" that Chinese management said when describing American characteristics to Chinese employees at the beginning of the film: carefree, direct, and unabashed.
The "low intelligence" of Americans seems to be joked by people all over the world, but Americans are also very easy to be "opened up". On the surface, they can be infected by the Chinese party for a while, but the freedom in their bones has been passed down for generations - as stated in the film, their affirmative action has gone through seventy years, even if the working class is not armed with many powerful theories, they It is also simple to understand that only the unions can give them better protection.
The biggest bargaining chip that controls the will of the workers in the film is of course capital, which also controls people regardless of nationality. The Chinese have always given up the pain of their body and skin in exchange for economic "kindness". It is difficult for an American worker who has worked for Ford for decades to agree. He called his work-related injury at Fuyao an "occupational disaster."
A two-dollar hourly pay rise in exchange for mandatory overtime, including Saturdays. It sounds poignant, but look at the vote: almost brutal, overwhelming, compromised. At the end of the film, it is said that in 2030, because of automation, more people will need to desperately look for jobs. Yes, Fuyao may indeed welcome more "ideal" young people in the near future. The kind of young man who is willing to be "a screw", equivalent to "tape to seal the mouth". This is not a cultural difference, it is the reverse output of the "sweatshop" model. This may be a crisis in a global context. When the output of one kind of capital is inseparably synchronized with the values of the starting country, other countries that have spent tens of hundreds or even thousands of years building their own free rights and interests, Is it possible to moderately resist this invasion?
We can clearly see that the so-called Chinese-style trade unions are closely bound up with Chinese-style political thinking. The "respect" to the previous leaders is the worship of the monarchy in the thinking of the family, the country and the world. Chairman Cao hangs his own portrait in his office (you don't even need to understand iconography to make up your mind how similar this photo is to the famous photo of Mao's youth), and he erects a portrait monument for himself in the Fujian factory. All the formalisms speak of the supreme thinking in the bones of the factory.
No matter how this "American factory" "shows favor" to Ohio, it will not change that it is actually controlled by an "alien" with huge assets but low management and control capabilities. Its so-called "bypassing the trade union" is actually to achieve centralization of power and facilitate the implementation of unitary management. Its incompetence and its iron fist are two sides of the same coin, and it is replicating the "success" of those administrators in its "birthplace".
But we want it to fail so much, because if it does "succeed," it will be a human failure. Organizations that cannot imagine and practice diversity will die of authoritarianism and monotony, and laborers who succumb to a "two dollar increase" for a while will eventually find that everything is a trap and a quagmire. To accept a kind of evil management will make the rupture happen more deeply in oneself and in future generations. Saying no to the hypocritical "American factory" may be difficult and tangled, but it is the direction we must strive for.
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