Rating : 4/5
Reviewed by Webmaster
Blue Collar is a film about three Detroit auto workers and their union. It doesnt seem like the kind of film you would find an objectivist rating highly, but I do. The film is neither pro-union nor 'liberal' in the modern political sense. The three leads, each played brilliantly by Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto and Richard Pryor, are not heroic. Their lives are stooped in range of the moment thinking, infidelity and even drug use. The results of this lifestyle is not hidden but shown - troubled family life and debt haunt the leads. A is certainly A.
The three men plot to rob their apparently ineffectual union but get away with only a few hundred dollars. Their suspicion is roused when the union claims for ten thousand dollars and what follows is their journey of discovery that behind the supposedly democratic union lies what lies behind all such collectivism - violence. It corrupts one, leads to the death of another and leaves the main lead utterly dissilusioned at the end.
A fine film showing that reality is not to be evaded and that collectivisms' last resort is always force.
