What they don't want you to see ...
Cinema Politica London
Thursday January 17, 2008
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: Fanshawe College, Room D1052 (D building)
USA 2005 86 minutes
Like no other film before, China Blue is a powerful and poignant journey into the harsh world of sweatshop workers. Shot clandestinely, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retailers don't want us to see: how the clothes we buy are actually made.
Following a pair of denim jeans from birth to sale, China Blue links the power of the U.S. consumer market to the daily lives of a Chinese factory owner and two teenaged female factory workers. Filmed both in the factory and in the workers' faraway village, this documentary provides a rare, human glimpse at China's rapid transformation into a free market society.
Micha X. Peled
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