sore_throat
Joined Oct 2001
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This documentary is about outsourcing in the U.S. and its impact on the average American worker, especially in the wake of the jobless economic recovery following 2001. The film is basically comprised of interviews with people who have lost their jobs due to outsourcing and interviews with various professionals about said subject, as well as NAFTA.
The film's strong suit is the interviews with the workers. What I would have liked to have additionally seen are three things.
First, the writer/director/host is a little bland. I know this is a documentary on an abstract topic, but he's still bland even considering said factor.
Second, it's too short, and this could have been remedied by the third thing I would have liked to see, namely some interviews with people who disagree that outsourcing is bad for the U.S. economy and/or proponents of NAFTA and other free trade agreements. If credibility is key then you need opposing viewpoints. Of course maybe such people were asked and all declined, but if that was the case this should have been mentioned.
All in all worth seeing. If you are completely in favor of outsourcing you will definitely find the film to be biased though.
The film's strong suit is the interviews with the workers. What I would have liked to have additionally seen are three things.
First, the writer/director/host is a little bland. I know this is a documentary on an abstract topic, but he's still bland even considering said factor.
Second, it's too short, and this could have been remedied by the third thing I would have liked to see, namely some interviews with people who disagree that outsourcing is bad for the U.S. economy and/or proponents of NAFTA and other free trade agreements. If credibility is key then you need opposing viewpoints. Of course maybe such people were asked and all declined, but if that was the case this should have been mentioned.
All in all worth seeing. If you are completely in favor of outsourcing you will definitely find the film to be biased though.
The basic plot of this film is about a producer (or was it director?) in the advertising industry and his problems with his profession and women.
This had been described to me as a satire on advertising, but it really isn't (though it does poke fun here and there). I won't dislike a film for not being what I thought it would be, but I will if the film isn't what it tries to be. Half the time I didn't know what it wanted to achieve, and during the first half hour I often found it to be a little confusing. It almost seemed like it had been heavily cut, and since I saw it on FMC maybe it was.
The main reason this film fails is because it can't decide if it wants to make a statement, be a comedy, be hip (for the time), be different, be traditional. It pretty much tries to do all that and it doesn't have the ability or resources to do so.
The last twenty minutes or so really sunk the film for me, when it decided to try and become dramatic but instead became what almost seemed like a parody.
If you find 1970s cinema or culture interesting you may want to watch it. I do give it credit for being somewhat distinct, though I think that happened accidentally.
This had been described to me as a satire on advertising, but it really isn't (though it does poke fun here and there). I won't dislike a film for not being what I thought it would be, but I will if the film isn't what it tries to be. Half the time I didn't know what it wanted to achieve, and during the first half hour I often found it to be a little confusing. It almost seemed like it had been heavily cut, and since I saw it on FMC maybe it was.
The main reason this film fails is because it can't decide if it wants to make a statement, be a comedy, be hip (for the time), be different, be traditional. It pretty much tries to do all that and it doesn't have the ability or resources to do so.
The last twenty minutes or so really sunk the film for me, when it decided to try and become dramatic but instead became what almost seemed like a parody.
If you find 1970s cinema or culture interesting you may want to watch it. I do give it credit for being somewhat distinct, though I think that happened accidentally.
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