Bread and Roses

"We want Bread, but Roses too"

The film shows the working conditions that the janitors -mostly undocumented immigrants-  must endure in order to keep their job.

The name of the film comes from the phrase "we want bread but roses too" used in the protest of Massachusetts immigrants of 1912, and replicated in the protests of the case "justice for the janitors".

The phrase tries to explain that although people who come to the US or another country looking for opportunities, are grateful to be able to have the basics, they also want to be able to choose more. as the Sam said "we want everything beautiful in life", everything that life can offer us to improve ourselves and to take care of ourselves and our families.

The final message of the movement was: The day they learn to organize and defend their rights, they will get the roses they want, it is necessary to fight to get roses. "Nobody will give you roses for free"

I loved the film because of its message and its realism, especially the scene of confrontation between Maya and her sister Rosa, since I believe that this scene shows the two positions, first Maya who is young and idealistic and in the second place Rosa who went through many unpleasant situations to be able to obtain her work, although she does not earn much she accepts it with submission, since she has two children and a husband who depend on her. Definitely Rosa is my favorite character.
Ever though I love the movie, I don't like the end because Maya was deported. 

But the significant is that the message helps us as citizens of a country with high rates of immigrants, and even more so to us as future public administrators that in a few more years we will have to deal with issues like these.

It is important to understand that those who come to our country may not have documents but they are still people like us, people who have aspirations and families, people who leave their homeland and their people, who take a risk in a unknown country, often without knowing the language; people who struggle to get roses.