Review of The Man in the White Suit

First of all, the film is free market propaganda. We see a scientist that is written in such a way that makes him act almost as an artist or a poet, altruistically going through any job that would give him the opportunity to work on his experiments. Right off the bat we see that the film consciously, in an effort to make a martyr out of its hero, ignores the class war and acts as all he has is due to his individual effort. This is reinforced by the interactions he has with the syndicalist workers who are painted to be blind to whatever is happening around them and incapable of speaking outside of marxist catchphrases. What we see is a great example of Heteroglossia, when the writer incorporates a language in order to reproduce it but injects in it his own commentary. In this case, he incorporates the marxist dialect in order to ridicule it.

Moving along, one of the big industrialist take an interest in our hero only to be later confronted by the other big industrialists as the discovery of this new kind of linen would essentially bankrupt them all. The film then proceeds to make the syndicalists side with the industrialists to show how the individual is oppressed by both the unions and the monopolies and how all they do is stop the "development". It also works on a different level as in making the syndicalists have the same point of view as the industrialists the film manages to successfully ridicule both of them.

Superficially seen the film can be ambiguous and thoughtful, which is a good thing i do not however buy into its discourse though. Also the film is quite a fun watch.