sharp and well make documentary focusing on mardi gras bead . i have always like this approach to film make communicate idea about a large and more complex and and often inscrutable phenomenon by break the issue down into something familiar and close to home . i be sure most people have hear story about sweatshop and understand the basic motif behind profit and capitalism and and globalism effect on poorer nation ( however people feel about it ) . rather than expound on these subject and get up on a soapbox ( not that there anything wrong with that and other than such documentary typically preach to the convert ) and this documentary simply show mardi gras bead and how they be manufacture and by what people and and under what condition and and then how they be utilize by consumer at the end of the process . it openly and starkly investigate the motivation of everyone involve in the process and include worker and factory management and american importer and and finally and the consumer at the end of the chain . i felt a little sicken by this while equally by the mardi gras reveler and but also by the way the worker in china have accept their situation a normal and par for the course ( even if they have some objection to the detail of how they be manage ) . the footage of the street sweeper clean up the bead off the street at the end and make a particular impression . but that be just my reaction while i can see how someone else might read this documentary a little differently . unlike other documentary on this subject and i do not think you have to have any specific political opinion to be affect by this . this be ultimately a story about human being and our relation to the good we produce and consume . if you have ever buy a product make in the far east and this should give you something to think about . outstanding and highly recommend . need to see more documentary like this . kudos to all of those involve in the making of this film .