Blog 4: Review of film Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses is a film that tells the history about Maya who start a fight against of exploitation of immigrants workers or latino workers and a fight for better working conditions. 

Maya is a Mexican girl of scarce resources and poor family who emigrated  to Los Angeles, USA where lives her sister Rosa. Rosa works like a office cleaner ans she maintains her home.

Maya decided request to Rosa that incorporated her as office cleaner and Rosa access to talk with her boss Mr. Perez and finally she got it, Maya will be office cleaner.

Into the work Maya meet others immigrates in the same situation like her, without documents, with dream, needs, and aspirations that they want to realize but the reality was different. 

One day she found a guy (Sam Saphiro) which  is an American activist that belongs to "Justice of janitors". He made to see at her the real situation and the real situation of the Latino workers who had deficient wages, near $5 dollars and "plus nothing" that is to say they don't have heath insurance or other benefits. For this reason Maya and the others workers begins a fight for better working conditions that involved wages increase and health assurance.

When I watched this movie I don't have many expectations, I through "this film will be bored" but the true is the movie was good. I liked the way how to see a critical to the system and  

the fact the film is based on true events like Janitors Strike.

My favorite character was Rosa because I liked the courage, effort and determination that she had to   decide maintains to entire family include Maya. Even that means made money send her body or risk her own life, she never told nothing. 

The thing that I liked about film was the message that the film has behind, the critical to big businessmen and employers  and also the way the film can exposed  a bad conditions and the suffer of thousand latino workers not only in USA also in the world.
I didn't like the relationship between Maya- Sam- Ruben, because for me it was confusing. I never understood  If Maya liked Sam or Ruben or both and the sense of this scenes.

My favorite scene was  when Rosa tells the true to Maya and the other scene favorite was when the workers was into the jail and the police asked them their names and they answer "Emilio Zapata, Augusto Sandino and Pancho Villa Junior".

Definitely is a great movie with which you can reflexionate and think that despite the risk that they taken because they could have lost their job or they could have been deported and the resistance of employers to access to the petitions of workers, latino workers kept fighting toghether for their rights and better conditions for them and all the workers untill they managed to win!