Wanted
Wanted was written and produced by the Textile Workers Union of America and is meant to serve as an informative school film for young workers hitting the market place. Does one get a boring office job where fat people click staplers by your ear? Do you go to work in a cubicle where people have no honor and have sex with your girlfriend?
Or, do you work at the glorious textile factory like your father? Where thousand year old tradition keeps workers safe, employed and making fine garments at a reasonable price.
Overall, despite being funded by the TWUA, the movie offers a fair and balanced look at cube life vs. the glorious world of textiles where people explode rats for fun and sweaters tell you who to kill.
The Meat Packers Union also has a brief cameo which somewhat distracts from the main message. And why is a meat packing plant in a textile factory? Well, the movie needed funding and perhaps children of today just aren’t that excited by textiles. Perhaps they are enthralled by the possibility of meat packing and the Meat Packers Union catchphrase, “pussypussypussypussy.”
The movie follows Wesley Gibson who realizes that being computer illiterate to the point of not being able to figure out how to google something might not lend himself well to office work. He just isn’t obsessed with post-it notes. Seriously, there’s an entire scene to establish that. A little over done.
Instead, he finds himself joining the Textile Union and going through their hazing process. It’s quite an ordeal and he has to sleep in hardened wax a lot (fun trivia, textile workers hate body hair).
We follow Wesley as he learns about his father, the tradition of textile and what a great decision he’s made joining the union.
In my viewing, the ending wasn’t accepted very well. The movie starts talking directly to the audience and literally mocks them. “What have you been doing with your pathetic lives? See how freakin’ awesome it is to be a Textile Union member?”
As an educational film I guess the movie works. But, as a piece of entertainment, it’s downright horrible.
I give it: -135135135.642167 Balls of Fury.
