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American Factory

2019

Action / Documentary

American Factory

2019

Action / Documentary

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95% TOMATOMETER · 93 reviews

82% AUDIENCE · 500 ratings

7.4/10 · 25.3K

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factory worker culture clash ohio chinese american blue collar worker

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Plot summary

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.

Director

Steven Bognar

Top cast

Junming 'Jimmy' Wang as Self - Vice President, Fuyao

Robert Allen as Self - Furnace Off-Loader

Sherrod Brown as Self - U.S. Senator, Ohio

Dave Burrows as Self - Vice President, Fuyao Glass America

Tech specs

720p.WEB 1080p.WEB

1013.07 MB

1280*714

English 2.0

TV-14

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23.976 fps

1 hr 50 min

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2.03 GB

1920*1072

English 5.1

TV-14

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23.976 fps

1 hr 50 min

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anonuseranonwords 2055 days ago

Can anyone actually comment on the movie though?

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IMDb reviews

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6 / 10

When a Chinese glass company decides to invest

CinemaSerf

When a Chinese glass company decides to invest in a former GM motor car factory in the USA, there is local excitement about the prospects of it employing a…

When a Chinese glass company decides to invest in a former GM motor car factory in the USA, there is local excitement about the prospects of it employing a couple of thousand Ohians and helping to reinvigorate a state that has suffered years of steady industrial decline. Maybe unsurprisingly, though, it doesn't take long for some clashes of culture to take affect between the largely domestic workforce and their Chinese management. The minimum wage is set at $14 per hour and that isn't likely to change at any time soon; the staff aren't quite treated as cattle but their performance targets are pretty much set in stone - and woebetides anyone who falls short. What's obvious is that minimising costs is key - there are even staff employed to sift through the broken glass sorting colour from colour as some glass is more valuable for recycling. Unions are recognised - how could they not be by a company from a nation that has worker's unions at every workplace, but their voices are largely unheard as the bosses' perpetual threat of redundancies and/or closure always limits their potency. This is not a marketplace where the employee has much choice and they and their employers know it. Now on the face of it, this is quite a savage critique on the often quite arbitary treatment of these blue-collar staff but on the other hand it's an equally powerful critique of the attitudes and expectations of workers in the west who have become used to working practices that are expensive and increasingly outmoded. Are these practices an hangover from the GM days or just a result of a more ingrained institutionalised sense of entitlement? The products being made here, after all, are for internal consumption not for export and so are presumably being priced accordingly. Is this another indictment of a consumer economy that wants to pay as little as possible for as much as it can get? Sadly for me, those comparisons aren't really very well made and for a film that is just shy of two hours long that absence of context rather turns this into an overly simplistic evaluations of differing business practices. Are the new owners any different from the previous ones with regard to their demands of the workforce? We don't know - indeed it isn't even addressed. Just why did the factory close in the first place? To expensive to run? The products are too expensive for the market? The quality wasn't as good as that of imported cars? We don't really address any of those issues and so are really only left with something that derides the low hanging fruit of the communist approach to enterprise without really balancing that with the undoubted benefits of more rigourous training and management for both staff and business alike. What is does do is illustrate quite clearly the ineffectiveness of the legislation that ought to protect the workers from exploitation. That their wages don't increase - even by inflation - year on year spotlights effectively how the upper hand is so clearly held by employers who see no imperative in raising their cost base unneccessarily, but again there are no contributions from legislators on how this might be tackled. This documentary has got a point to make, but after about half an hour it has made that and thereafter really goes round in ever decreasing circles that establish, criticise and/or reinforce stereotypical ideas from both systems but that extrapolate very little new from the data and opionions it garners.

8 / 10

You always read about "cultural differences" as being

rsanek

You always read about "cultural differences" as being something that must be overcome when dealing with international projects, but that language always felt…

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