SALT OF THE EARTH
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Salt of the Earth (1954) is an American drama film written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert J. Biberman (husband of Academy Award-winning actress Gale Sondergaard), and produced by Paul Jarrico.
All had been blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment due to their involvement in socialist politics.
The movie became a historical phenomenon and has a cult following due to how the United States establishment (politicians, journalists, studio executives, and other trade unions) dealt with the film.
Salt of the Earth is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view.
The film centers on a long and difficult strike led by Mexican-American and Anglo miners against the Empire Zinc Company.
The film shows how the miners, the company, and the police, react during the strike.
In neorealist style the producers and director used actual miners and their families as actors in the film.
The film opens with a narration from Esperanza Quintero (Rosaura Revueltas).
She begins:
"How shall I begin my story that has no beginning? My name is Esperanza, Esperanza Quintero.
I am a miner's wife. This is our home.
The house is not ours. But the flowers... the flowers are ours. This is my village. When I was a child, it was called San Marcos. The Anglos changed the name to Zinc Town. Zinc Town, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Our roots go deep in this place, deeper than the pines, deeper than the mine shaft..."
The issues the miners strike for include equity in wages with Anglo workers, and health and safety issues.
Ramon Quintero (Juan Chacon) helps organize the strike, but at home he treats his wife as a second class citizen.
His wife, Esperanza Quintero, who is pregnant with their third child, is traditionally passive at first and is reluctant either to take part in the strike or to assert her rights for equality at home.
But she changes her attitude when the men are forced to end their picketing by a Taft-Hartley Act injunction.
The women convince the men at the union hall, after a long debate, and proudly take their place in the picket line.
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One of the metaphors of Salt and Light that occurs in the Sermon on the Mount according to the New Testament.
Humble and unpretentious people: Salt and Light...