Maquilapolis
Watching this documentary was heart wrenching and simultaneously unsurprising. Constantly I felt the impulse to say "how could we let this happen," or some other meaningless drivel. The filmmaker used very effective timelapse techniques that really stuck with me. Watching the women stand in place as the world flew by them really solidified this feeling that the world is literally passing these people by. We use them and their land and don't bother to give them a second glance. The filmmaker also used layering techniques using nondiagetic sound to have one of the women talk about their experience while simultaneously forcing you to experience what that's like. What a minor part in a tube tv these women work to make, at slave labor wages, and receive health problems as a result. Then their jobs are taken because the wages are even lower somewhere else? What terrible things are we inflicting on those people? The filmmaker also expertly weaved many women's stories together to paint a picture that felt like it gave me a full understanding of the conditions. These women aren't singularities.
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