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This film is based on the life and struggles of Cesar Chavez. In the 1960's and 1970's, Chavez organized a group of 50,000 farm workers (mostly braceros) with a union in order to improve farm working conditions.
This film was directed by Diego Luna. This film has been presented at a time when immigration and rights are being highly argued. In many ways this film feels like a reminder to keep human rights as the main platform for these arguments. The story is very simply told with obvious characters. It has only one real character, and the others are merely present. This biopic film spends a lot of time making Cesar into a hero without question. The film also explains that politics in a very understandable method that adds to the heroism of the main character. There is nothing to complicate this story in anyway; which gives it a slight bias. There is also no real emotion pull to the characters or to their plight. Only at the end, is the needed depth added to the film. This film is in both spanish and english, but mostly english. Michael Pena played the role of Cesar Chavez. It is easy to see the characters views, but there needed to be more emotion shown on screen.
I give this film 3 out of 5 stars! Being the first film about him, it was not bad. It works as a biographical film, but it does not tug enough to gather the following it needs.
Answer to last blog: Actor Sebastian Knapp and director Christopher Spencer, Son of God, worked together on the television project I Shouldn't Be Alive.
Que: What other activist film has director Diego Luna starred in?
Boys of Abu Ghraib
The Whistleblower
Milk
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