Norma Rae/Die Bleierne Zeit: A comparative discussion
In plot summary, the movies "Norma Rae" and "Die Bleierne Zeit" appear to be very similar: They have a feminist perspective, both have females as protagonists. Both deal with the misery of people towards their social conditions. But, once one takes a closer look at each movie, it becomes apparent that each film takes place in a distinctive, but different, social condition. "Norma Rae" describes a democratic, capitalist society in Alabama Milltown whereas “Die Bleierne Zeit" describes a socialist situation, during the time of Nazi rule in Germany. I chose “Norma Rae” and “Die Bleierne Zeit” for comparative discussion because these two movies are close to reality, they are inspired from people. “Norma Rae” is a lively, but dependable, widow and mother in an Alabama Milltown. Like her father, her mother and most of her friends, she is employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions, spinning and weaving cloth as the days go by without much apparent purpose. Her "nothing special" life changes when she and her coworkers meet Reuben, a dedicated, smart-mouthed labor organizer down from New York to teach the Henley crew about solidarity in a place where workers and owners alike think "union" and "trouble" are synonymous. . . .
“Norma Rae” was not only intellectually stimulating but was also cinematographically superior as it won the following awards: Academy Awards Best Actress( Sally Field ) Best Song( Norman Gimbel,David Shire ) Golden Globe Awards Best Actress( Sally Field ) Cannes Film Festival Best female performance( Sally field ) Best Competing Film( Martin Ritt ) Grand Prix de la Commission Superieure Technique de Cinema( Martin Ritt) LA Film Critics Association Best Actress( Sally Field ) National Board of Review of Motion Picture Best Actress( Sally Field ) New York Film Critics Circle Best Actress(Sally Field ) Die Bleierne Zeit was released in 1981. In my opinion the film is dedicated to Christie Ensslin. The only uncompromising situations faced by the workers in “Norma Rae”, were the threat of low wages and loss of jobs. The factory has taken too much of a toll on the health of Norma Rae's family for her to ignore the appalling working conditions. Gudrun Ensslin was captured on June 7,1972. “Norma Rae” received wide acclamation. Both were successful in establishing their objectives. Their intent was to portray themselves as faction of a much larger Revolutionary army. The story is fictionalized but it so closely resembles the life of Ensslins that one is tempted to view it as a bio pic. This causes dissension at home when Norma Rae's husband Sonny (played by Beau Bridges) assumes that her activism is a result of a romance between herself and Reuben. Depending on whom you believe, she either hung herself or was murdered early in the morning of 18 October 1977 in her prison cell in Stammheim prison.
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