Mjeteconer Just perfect...

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

karild CHINA BLUE, which examines the harsh reality of mass production of blue jeans in China's garment factories - jeans that are ultimately sold in America - is an amazing, insightful and profoundly moving film. It follows some of the young girls who find their way to the factories to get menial, slave labor jobs, then struggle to survive in the terribly harsh conditions that would be criminal in this country. The use of something very close to a dramatic structure, more typical of feature films, which weaves seamlessly with the documentary exploration, creates a new approach that tells the story with amazing power and involves the viewer completely. The surprise ending was so human, so unexpected, and so filled with hope. I kept thinking that someone or something might come to rescue the factory girls as a result. My mind constructed various possible scenarios of what might happen, but the truth is that the film itself may be what saves them, by bringing their plight to the attention of Western consumers who, it is hoped, will be outraged by the indentured servitude forced upon these young girls, and be unable to ignore the fact that their clothing purchases contribute to such misery and injustice. Shot over a 3-year period, often with an undercover camera smuggled into the Chinese factory, the terrible slave labor conditions endured by a small army of teenage girls is revealed. Through an accident of birth these young workers were born into abject poverty in rural Chinese villages. To try for a chance at a better life and to be able to send a little money back home to their starving families, they make the long and arduous journey to the factory towns, where they work under impossible conditions for a few cents an hour. If they had been born in America they would be attending school, listening to music, partying with their friends, attending sports events, thinking about their hair, makeup and boyfriends - just being normal teenage girls. But as Chinese factory workers with not even enough time to sleep well between excruciatingly long shifts, their lives are an endless drudgery and their teen years are stolen from them. When evaluating a film I want to see how long it stays with me, and this film and the situation that these young girls live in, with no chance of escape, has stayed with me ever since I saw it. I just can't get them out of my head. Their youth is being stolen from them and they are forced into a brutal and inhuman system that rejects their rights and their humanity. Hopefully the spotlight that CHINA BLUE shines on these injustices will lead to real changes. There is plenty of blame to go around for this outrage. In addition to the manufacturers who out-source the clothing production to China and call for ever-lower prices and ever faster delivery, the big stores who retail these jeans are guilty too. If only the labels and the retailers in the western world who contract with the Chinese factories would insist on dealing solely with factories that guarantee fair pay and humane working conditions, this form of slavery would be eliminated in short order. All they would have to do is be just a tiny bit less greedy, and give up just a little of their considerable profit. -- Review by Karil DanielsMicha X. Peled - Producer/Director/CameraSong Chen - Associate Producer/Translation Supervisor/Sound/Hidden Camera

ssilanee I watched the screening of China Blue and this film changed my life.I am by no means a person who does not keep up with the world and its issues, and I am still in shock by my ignorance of the working conditions in third world countries.According to Micha, this movie did not even reflect the worst and I am disgusted by the inhumanity that backs these factories. Young, innocent women being taking advantage of because they don't know better.There is absolutely no excuse for this, and somebody needs to put a stop to it. Because the corporations profit from this cheap labor, it is our responsibility, as consumers, to speak up. Afterall, corporations are driven by money, and the money relies on the consumer's purchases.I have done some research on what organizations exist that are trying to regulate these working conditions. Unfortunately, it is not easy to have a voice, but I am very interested in getting involved with this issue.Again, it is solely China Blue that is driving me to make a change. If more people would watch this movie, perhaps they would want to take initiative as well.

volcfilm The extraordinary patience and perseverance of Micha Peled, against much Chinese obstruction, rewards us with appalling insights to the world of cheap labour exploitation in China. The near slavery of the young garment workers shames our own cushy lives and reveals the darkest side of international trade. No one should buy a pair of cheap fashion jeans ever again without knowing what China Blue reveals went into making them for the price.See the film and understand the ruthless modern world. Raise your voice if you can for workers rights in China. (Check out 'Labour behind the Label'). Above all remember that many people have suffered to provide you and me with a bargain. John Dollar

nickhornby This is not the usual rant about China's sweat shop factories, Peled's film is much more powerful than that. By focusing on a narrow cast of characters we get to know and love his protagonists, young girls from the provinces forced to travel to find work but also fascinated by the glamour of city life. Instead of the usual pat liberalism, the film goes on to show how even the bosses are also caught up in a cycle of exploitation that ends ultimately with the foreign buyers insisting on ludicrously low prices. Funny, moving and intelligent: the film shows you how we can get such unbelievable deals and why China has become the workshop of the world.A masterpiece of political documentary making.