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 This movie, unlike most movies we watch in this class, was a box office failure. It’s not mainstream and I had to go to YouTube to find the movie, it doesn’t even have background music for most of the film. Typically, most of the movies we watch have some pretty big societal impacts since some of them have won Oscars for best picture, or have been the number one film for decades.These descriptions don’t apply to this movie, it has reached a smaller population, it isn’t as widely viewed or known. Nonetheless, this movie is still significant. It came out in 1987, during Reagan’s presidency, someone who was very anti-union. The movie obviously was made as political commentary, and can tell us a lot about the period it was made in. Furthermore, it is important to acknowledge that this movie is also very historically accurate, compared to the other movies we’ve watched in class. This outlier of a movie for our class can also be seen as an outlier for movies in general. It has political commentary of both the time period it is portraying, but as well as the time period it was made. The creators chose to have less development of a romantic plot line between Joe Kenehan and Elma Radnor, and instead chose to develop the plot line of the massacre. –Teresa Felipe This movie, unlike most movies we watch in this class, was a box office failure. It’s not mainstream and I had to go to YouTube to find the movie, it doesn’t even have background music for most of the film. Typically, most of the movies we watch have some pretty big societal impacts since some of them have won Oscars for best picture, or have been the number one film for decades.These descriptions don’t apply to this movie, it has reached a smaller population, it isn’t as widely viewed or known. Nonetheless, this movie is still significant. It came out in 1987, during Reagan’s presidency, someone who was very anti-union. The movie obviously was made as political commentary, and can tell us a lot about the period it was made in. Furthermore, it is important to acknowledge that this movie is also very historically accurate, compared to the other movies we’ve watched in class. This outlier of a movie for our class can also be seen as an outlier for movies in general. It has political commentary of both the time period it is portraying, but as well as the time period it was made. The creators chose to have less development of a romantic plot line between Joe Kenehan and Elma Radnor, and instead chose to develop the plot line of the massacre. –Teresa Felipe
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 +I believe that most other viewers would have like me, had a vague sense of the events of this time. Maybe, like me, it would have been part of a unit done in a history class that they took a decade ago. So, like me, while they would have had a sense of the time period they might not remember the atrocities that were actually committed. While the villains in this movie might seem cartoonish, it would be particularly hard to underplay how evil they actually were. This movie does an amazing job of informing the viewer what exactly happened at this time that the government and corporations might not want us to remember. -Annika
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