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Watching the scene of their living location reminds me some parts of our neighborhood when I was little. I can totally picture the mud dirt and sewage on the street, and I was one of those children who wondering should I pick up the ball or not.

Through the film, we can see the wealth gap between rich and poor not only making the issue economically, but also in living environment, justice access. The reason the woman having hard time to get their severance is they cannot afford the lawyer and don’t have the knowledge to fight for their rights. Even they bring the case to the court, the big company still holding the power, the company that has huge finance and politic resources decide the women worker’s proposal. The justice(legal severance and right) is holding by the hand of injustice.

Another issue was brought up is the consequences of globalization. The idea that all over the world contribute and share the wealth is manipulated by most of the developed countries. For example, the whole family making the dinner, someone has to buy the grocery, and someone has to clean the dish. Unfortunately, countries like Mexico was being the factory base to build wealth for other countries. Globalization using the concept that everyone contribute and share tricked developing countries, switch the factory from their own country to developing countries, like moving their own problem to someone else. Once a place gets expensive or screwed, they move on to next one which has cheaper labor. The globalization somehow provide them excuse to make other countries their labor colony.