A Critical Review of The Coca-Cola Case and Mardi Gras: Made in China
By Sebastian Vladimir
Introduction
For my critical review I chose to do the movies The Coca-Cola Case and Mardi Gras: Made in China. The Coca-Cola Case is a documentary film about Coke and labor rights in the bottling plants. Similarly, in Mardi Gras: Made in China it is also a sort of documentary about bead factories in China. In both of these films we view some of the most brutal working conditions a human can possibly go through. This paper will review Carmen Garcia’s film (The Coca-Cola Case) and David Redmon’s film (Mardi Gras: Made in China) as well as main arguments in both movies, and will evaluate the quality of the films and focus on areas of strengths and weaknesses within both films. …show more content…
It presents alleged kidnapping, torture and murder of union leaders trying to improve working conditions in Colombia, Guatemala and Turkey. The filmmakers follow labor rights lawyers Daniel Kovalik and Terry Collingsworth and an activist for the Stop Killer-Coke! Campaign, Ray Rogers, as they attempt to hold the giant U.S. multinational beverage company accountable in this legal and human rights battle.
In David Redmon’s film on the other hand we are shown what Mardi Gras is all about. It is a fun carnival celebration, which takes place in New Orleans the day before Ash Wednesday. We also see that its not all fun and games, we see how commodity chains, weaving back and forth between the desires of revelers in New Orleans for inexpensive plastic beads, the labor of factory workers in China whose lives are almost entirely shaped by the desires of these revelers, and the American distributor who links the two.
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By Sebastian Vladimir
Introduction
For my critical review I chose to do the movies The Coca-Cola Case and Mardi Gras: Made in China. The Coca-Cola Case is a documentary film about Coke and labor rights in the bottling plants. Similarly, in Mardi Gras: Made in China it is also a sort of documentary about bead factories in China. In both of these films we view some of the most brutal working conditions a human can possibly go through. This paper will review Carmen Garcia’s film (The Coca-Cola Case) and David Redmon’s film (Mardi Gras: Made in China) as well as main arguments in both movies, and will evaluate the quality of the films and focus on areas of strengths and weaknesses within both films. …show more content…
It presents alleged kidnapping, torture and murder of union leaders trying to improve working conditions in Colombia, Guatemala and Turkey. The filmmakers follow labor rights lawyers Daniel Kovalik and Terry Collingsworth and an activist for the Stop Killer-Coke! Campaign, Ray Rogers, as they attempt to hold the giant U.S. multinational beverage company accountable in this legal and human rights battle.
In David Redmon’s film on the other hand we are shown what Mardi Gras is all about. It is a fun carnival celebration, which takes place in New Orleans the day before Ash Wednesday. We also see that its not all fun and games, we see how commodity chains, weaving back and forth between the desires of revelers in New Orleans for inexpensive plastic beads, the labor of factory workers in China whose lives are almost entirely shaped by the desires of these revelers, and the American distributor who links the two.
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