Day 38- Movie night

Hey!!

So i have been away for a long long time, was caught up in too many things. I hava a lot to tell. Anyways, today was not exactlt a movie night, i had to do two movie reviews for my class assignment. I haven't written those yet because they have to be six pages long each but i did watch both the movies today.

Trust me, they were no delight in the start. I got this assignment months back but i did not have the courage to pick up them till now. One was this 1954, american movie called 'Salt of the earth' and the other was 1991 movie 'Straight out of brooklyn'.
I was not excited about any of them because of the imdb rating of the later one, it was around 5.1 out of 10 and the first one because it was a black and white movie.

I am not averse to black and movies but then who would want to watch a movie on mill workers in black and white. If it would have been something like devdas, i would have given it a thought. But i was wrong, 'never judge a book by its cover.' Both the movies were strong and left some dilemmmas in  mind.

Straight out of brooklyn was about a boy named Dennis and his family, they are blacks living in still a segregated society. While for millions of americans, american dream is all about success, for people like dennis, who are black and also come from poverty, know of only one way to achieve the AMERICAN DREAM i.e. through joining the streets and illegals. That is what dennise sets out for  but returns back empty handed. It was a comment on the american society or the government or the segreagation as such, i really cannot say but it did make a social point. The movie touched me when Dennis' father says, white men have eaten my life just like my father's and grandfather's life and now it is going to eat my son's life too. And it did happen as he feared.

The second movie, salt of the earth, i could relate to it more. It addressed two things - women's right within the bigger milieu of men's rights and also the exploitation felt at the hands of big miners and capitalists. It was banned in america as it is a huge blemish on American capitalism. Set in new mexico, a mining company hires both Mexican and Anglo miners but differentiates between the two. ANGLOS have better housing, sanitation, benefits, salaries and work conditions. So the mexican workers one day go on a strike but they never include womens demands in their agenda. Strike goes on for months and then comes the court order that miners cannot strike in front of the mine. So, women come up with an idea that they will stand in front of mine instead of men as they are not mine workers. In this context, the questions of women subjugation and need for their rights crops up in every sphere. Women vote for the first time at trade union meeting, people from across support this effort and it goes on for a time. Women capture the movemnet and men do not like it but they realize in the end that together only they can ward off all the evils. Strike is won. It was an epic and i liked this one a lot. Though the heavy mexican accent was difficult to understand at times.

It was a night well spent and i wrote a lot, and i enjoyed watching these movies alone. Now i got to go sleep  it is 6 in the morning and i am very sleepy. I have to get up early tomorrow. Big things coming up.

Bye!!