The story
of the famous strike of Ford sewing machinists in 1968.
Behind is bizarre
title, which for unfathomable reasons in Italy has been changed in “We want sex”
(maybe they marketed it as a sexy comedy), there is actually an hot issues
movie, a kind of movie which lied dormant for a very long time but now is on
resurgence.
The real
story behind the movie is certainly an important one, that strike was a
landmark moment on the long road to equality between men and women, certainly
worth to make a movie out of it. It is also a very cinematic, clear cut story.
There is a lot of scope for rousing speeches and personal drama while the bad
guys, evil corporation and male centered trade union, are easily despicable.
The movie
dramatize some moments but get most of the details right, maybe it could have
done a little bit more with the dialogues and the characters but in the end it’s
better that they presented a fairly accurate and engrossing depiction of the
events.
Sally
Hawkings of “Happy go lucky” fame stands out again as the strike leader. There
is something in her that makes it easy for us to believe in what she believes.
As many noted in Happy go lucky it’s much harder to laugh convincingly on
camera than it is to cry.
Verdict:
Good movie
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