Write a Review on the film “Migrant Dreams” (2016)
analyze the issues and themes covered in the film using course material, as well as secondary research. To start, students should carefully read the accompanying articles and materials for the week on which the film is viewed. These articles and websites will form the basis for your secondary research. Second, students are encouraged to retrieve 2-3 reviews or commentary articles about the film that they have chosen. The purpose of this second exercise is to bring your film review into conversation with other commentary on the film, not to replicate what others have already written.
Film reviews should address the following questions:
What are the primary work and labour issues covered in the film? Who is involved and what are they trying to accomplish? (How do workers and employers interests conflict? What divisions between workers exist and why are they important? How are the government or agencies thereof implicated?)
What laws, legislation, policy or regulations are important to the story? *In a broad sense, how do labour relations and other legal regimes shape the issues dealt with in the film?
How are the primary issues in the film resolved, and what does this tell us about labour law and other issues covered in our course?
What lessons do you think the filmmaker wants the audience to draw from the film? Are they successful at conveying this?
