"Bread and Roses"

Hi guys! It’s me again, well the post of today it’s a little bit different than the last one.

Yesterday, with the class we saw the film “Bread and Roses” which was directed by Ken Loach. And now I’m going to tell you my favorite 3 scenes.

The first one is when Sam went to the Maya’s house to explain to her family why is important to start a strike in the organization. He told that in 1982 cleaners had a better salary than in nowadays (1999), they gain $8.50 per hour with many benefits like health, holidays and others services but that finished gradually in 17 years. I like that because this was the start of the strike to improve their life’s quality.

The second scene is when the clean employees realized that they have right to organize unions but their boss didn’t let them to do that. So they joined to another union from the organization to start to protest. I like that because although some people wasn’t agree with the strike, they want to be respected.

And the last one is when everybody was in jail but Sam got a call and he announced to the employees that they will be hire again (everybody was fired for the strike). Unfortunately this scene finished bad because Maya was deported to Mexico again. I like that scene, despite the unlucky end of Maya, because the film has a happy ending after all.

Actually the social films aren’t one of my favorite types of films, but I like it because they give a different way of looking for some reality, like Machuca, it shows the Chilean's reality before 1973 with another eyes.

The immigrants' working conditions in Chile are deplorable because they gain less than the minimum salary even when they worked more hours than other employees, in adittion they are discriminate against for their nationality or their skin color :( .