Failed No Network Support For Messages Of Sympathy
On September 1, a federal judge issued a sweeping injunction against striking, assembling, picketing, colloquially known as the Daugherty injunction. Unions bitterly resented the injunction; a few sympathy strikes shut down some railroads completely. Through a series of letters and documents, Torday creates a political satire that focused more on the art of political spin than on the force of the human spirit. Beaufoy enjoyed the challenge of transforming a fairly complex novel written in an unusual format—a series of emails, text messages, interviews, and testimony extracts—into a film. [Read More]