The Obama's first film, "American Factory", debuts on Netflx

[Bayard]

The first documentary produced by Barack and Michelle Obama for Netflix debuted on Wednesday. Called "American Factory," it explores what befell workers of an Ohio General Motors plant that closed following the 2008 financial crisis and was later bought by a Chinese company.

Directed by veteran independent filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, the film looks at the economic and personal toll that the closure, which resulted in the loss of 2,000 jobs, had on residents of Moraine, Ohio, and at what happened after the facility was acquired by a Chinese investor in 2014. The factory was reopened as Fuyao Glass, an auto-glass manufacturer that promised the return of jobs to the community.

"A good story gives you the chance to better understand someone else's life," Mr. Obama said Wednesday in a tweet. "It can help you find common ground. And it's why Michelle and I were drawn to Higher Ground's first film, 'American Factory.'"

Link to tweet

https://www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/obama-netflix-documentary-american-factory-makes-debut-today-2019-08-21/

[Johnny2X2X]

1. Very poweful

Touches on many issues.

Basically the American blue collar worker cannot compete with the Chinese worker or even come close to it. The difference is that Americans value time with their families more than they do work. No American is going to go years only seeing their children once or twice a year so they can work for very little money.

Corporations can bust unions at will these days, they hire firms to stop it and they fire organizers without consequences.

The Chinese system of capitalism with a communist government is going to out compete American capitalism because the workers are willing to sacrifice their own comforts and family for the greater Chinese goals.

[underthematrix]

2. Excellent documentary. I've watched it several times.

[vsrazdem]

3. I couldn't finish it. I got too pissed off with the Chinese attitude, treating them like soldiers,

with no family life. All about appearance for the owner. He could give a crap about worker safety, as in his mind there is alway someone in line to replace them.

[Duppers]

6. That's life in China!

And what the GOP overlords want in this country!

[mcar]

4. Putting it on my list