Watched "Walmart, The Cost of Low Prices"

[RawAlex]

Originally Posted by Jim

They really had no choice about working there. And 1 of my sister's in law was fired for what they said stealing. Although she never stole a thing. She wanted her overtime. The others...they are just morons

So they were taken a gunpoint to work? Perhaps the government set up a secret draft to enlist people to work at the stores. Maybe (as suggested in the Simpsons) they put devices on the workers to control their thoughts.

Nahh.

Ecchi, this movie didn't get played much in America, but it has found a welcoming audience in Europe that it didn't find here. There seems to be some sort of satisfaction in finding that "the best of America" could be the worst.

Alex

[Jim]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

So they were taken a gunpoint to work? Perhaps the government set up a secret draft to enlist people to work at the stores. Maybe (as suggested in the Simpsons) they put devices on the workers to control their thoughts.

Nahh.

Ecchi, this movie didn't get played much in America, but it has found a welcoming audience in Europe that it didn't find here. There seems to be some sort of satisfaction in finding that "the best of America" could be the worst.

Alex

No, I guess since all but one retail store in this area went out of business when walmart opened, they could have tried to work there. Or, they could have just gone on welfare. I agree with you...they had choices.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

Ecchi, this movie didn't get played much in America, but it has found a welcoming audience in Europe that it didn't find here. There seems to be some sort of satisfaction in finding that "the best of America" could be the worst.

I got this deal with my local multiplex, I pay a monthly subscription rather than an individual "per visit" price, so I tend to go to the cinema several times a week. I also get several film magazines, and I am a member of "The British Film Institute". But I had never heard about this movie until Jim mentioned it. You are probably right in that it is popular in art houses aimed at students and left over hippies, but very wrong in saying "it has found a welcoming audience in Europe". If it is showing here, it is a minor movie playing in a few specialist cinemas. The last major "US bashing" movie to be a big hit over here was Team America, which throws the shit at all sides. It was also hilarious if you can stand the shit slinging (and whichever side you are on, you are going to be offended, it sort of says that the war in Iraq is wrong, and everyone who disagrees with it is also wrong, and that Michael Moore is right, but everyone who agrees with Michael Moore is an asshole)

Actually the opinion in Britain on Walmart tends to be less about human rights and more about the fact that Walmart is crippling the American balance of payments with it's excessive reliance on imports, and when the American economy eventually collapses and you go 1930's again, Walmart will be one of the main causes.

(And the fact that most of Europe sees America's imminent economical collapse as a "when" rather than an "if" is because the majority of Americans are believed (by Europeans) to have a "So Walmart do this, but what can you do? They are cheaper" attitude.)