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The Next Picture Show

Which Side Are You On? Pt. 2 - American Factory

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Unions, globalism and the American Dream in the new Netflix documentary.

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0:16.6

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:20.4

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

0:27.1

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:35.0

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film

0:39.6

in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Scott Tobias here again with

0:43.8

Tasha Robinson, Keith Phipps, and Genevieve Kosky. Last episode, we talked about Harlan County

0:48.5

USA, Barbara Cople's Oscar-winning documentary about a minor strike in Appalachia. This episode, we're jumping ahead to the present day to see how working conditions and

0:58.1

labor relations have changed in the Netflix documentary American Factory.

1:02.2

The decline of blue-collar manufacturing jobs in the Midwest has been the subject of stump

1:06.7

speeches and documentaries for a long time, including Roger and Me, which we recently

1:11.0

revisited in this podcast.

1:13.1

And like Roger and Me, the inciting incident in American Factory is the closing of a GM

1:18.0

plant and an industrial hub, costing thousands of workers their jobs.

1:22.6

This particular plant is located in Keith Phipps' hometown of Dayton, Ohio, and there's

1:26.9

hope for revitalization

1:28.2

when a Chinese glass company called Fou Yao takes over the plant and hires many former GM

1:33.9

employees for its workforce. It's an exciting experiment, suggesting a future where two cultures

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