The Take
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Actor: Naomi KleinDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Movie Reviews of The Take
Movie Review: Self-Management at It's Finest.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have long been an advocate of workers self-management and socialism from below. This was the best documentary available to see these ideals, not just theorized on paper, but in actions executed by ordinary people. The most inspiring aspect of this dvd is that the workers created the entire movement. Free of a vanguard (leninism) or liberal reformers. This was direct democracy in it's purest and most beautiful.
The film was obviously slanted against the IMF and the rest of the unholy trinity but as Howard Zinn phrased so well "You can't be neutral on a moving train". I would say the near unanimous blame of the IMF by the Argentine people warrants such a view. Despite this slant time is given to leading businessmen and neo-liberals to defend their stances and explain their positions.
All in all it's a great way to look inside the world of direct democracy and what societies could look like in a decentralized, cooperative nation. Bravo!
Summary of The Take
{WINNER! Best Documentary, 2005 Cleveland International Film Festival}{WINNER! Grand Jury Prize, 2004 AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival}
{WINNER! Best Justice and Human Rights Film, 2004 Vermont International Film Festival}
In the wake of Argentina's spectacular economic collapse, Latin America's most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. Thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory in Buenos Aires, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head.
Filmmakers Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein take viewers inside the lives of the workers and their families, who must fight for jobs and their dignity by confronting factory owners, politicians and judges. The result is a real-life political thriller that pits ordinary workers against the local ruling elite and the powerful forces of global capitalism.
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