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Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Details the catastrophic effects globalization has wrought on the ship, truck and train industries. We visit displaced farmers and villagers in Holland and Belgium, underpaid truck drivers in Los Angeles, seafarers aboard mega-ships shuttling between Asia and Europe, and factory workers in China, whose low wages are the fragile key to the whole puzzle. At a moment when collective bargaining rights are under attack in the United States, and China continues to bow to foreign pressures to prevent such rights from being granted at all, this film asks: Is capitalism the Trojan horse that turns on its inventors?
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes71%
Metacritic54/100
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
8 audience votes
Key crew
- Allan SekulaDirector
- Noël BurchDirector