Blue Collar
“"Blue Collar" is the American Dream. If you're rich, you can buy it. If you're anything else, you gotta fight for it.”
DramaCrime
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
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A raw, unflinching look at the daily grind and simmering desperation of blue-collar life. It feels heavy with the weight of economic struggle and the corrosive effects of systemic mistreatment, building to a tense, inevitable confrontation.
grittytensebleakcynicalsteadygritty realismcharacter-driven dramaneo-realismworking-class struggledisillusionmenteconomic hardshipfrustration
factory workerrobberyblackmaildrinkinguniondetroit, michiganblue collar workervending machinecar factoryassembly line
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