“Offshore” might not be the first movie about Indian call center
workers—“Slumdog Millionaire” has that distinction—but surely this dark
comedy is the first to deal with the cultural and economic dislocations,
not to speak of the outright racism, when they get these jobs as a
result of outsourcing.
As a joint Indian-U.S. production, the movie tries to tell both sides of
a story that is all the more topical given the current economic
downturn. It begins with a visit of Voxx call center executive Ajay
Tiwari (Sid Makkar) to the offices of Fairfax Furniture in Detroit in
order to line up a deal to relocate their call center to Mumbai where it
will be staffed by Indians.
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“Food, Inc.” is a powerful indictment of corporate farming that opens at
the Film Forum in New York on June 12th. Inspired by the writings of
Eric Schosser (“Fast Food Nation”) and Michael Pollan (“The Omnivore’s
Dilemma”), who provide a kind of tag-team running commentary throughout
the documentary directed by Robert Kenner, it is the definitive
statement on how America produces crappy food to the detriment of the
people who eat it, the animals who are treated cruelly in farms and
slaughterhouses, and the largely immigrant workforce that labors in
unsafe and low wage conditions. The only benefactors it would appear are
the men who run Monsanto, Purdue, Smithfield and a small group of other
huge multinationals that only see food as the ultimate commodity. When
they look at a tomato, they don’t see something to eat but something to
turn into a dollar no matter the consequences to society.
full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/offshore-food-inc/
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