Slaxx makes its message loud and clear in the last 20 minutes. Indeed, the jeans are a reincarnation of those same Indian workers, explicitly referring to the workers at the beginning of the film in the cotton field. Instead of decapitating her like the others, the jeans begin to dance along. As the jeans approach her, Shruti is shown singing along to the Bollywood song “Humara India", the same song that was played in the opening scene. After massacring numerous people, the jeans attempt to go to their next victim, Shruti. The wide-eyed and pure young girl Libby symbolizes the innocent newcomers to the workforce, unwillingly joining something genuinely despicable.Ī significant scene in the film is between Shruti and the jeans when she escapes their reign. Along with an over-the-top social influencer named Peyton Jewels and horrible corporate bosses, the jeans become a symbol for taking a stand against unjust working conditions. Just like these laborers' well-being and health were sacrificed for jeans, those same jeans are sacrificing the CCC’s employee’s lives. The jeans begin to kill employees one after another, dropping like flies. Either way, the jeans are just a part of the film’s overall message: huge corporations exploit and abuse workers. The jean’s meaning could go one of two ways: they are a metaphor for consumerism, or the jeans themself are a reincarnation of overworked laborers marking their revenge. There are many ways to interpret the real message of this film and what the jeans are a symbol for. As more people die, Craig keeps trying to hide the truth: a metaphor for how this corporation, along with many others, lies about just anything (in this instance, their clothes being ethically sourced and organic) to get to the top. The once curious and excited new employee now realizes the raw and sad truth behind CCC. With fast fashion corporations such as American Apparel going bankrupt in 2015, Slaxx does what horror films do best: have important social commentary without being too straightforward.Īs Libby finds Jemma dead, instead of calling the cops, Craig says they have to hide the body not to scare other employees because it's a “team effort.” After all, CCC is a company that takes good care of its own. With the film’s opening scene showing Indian workers in a cotton field, Slaxx makes its first of many comments on consumerism, globalism, and how giant corporations treat their workers. Instead, they tighten so much that they cut Jemma right in half. When trying to take off the jeans to use the bathroom, they refuse to come off. It seems like nothing possibly could go wrong, right? The seemingly happy beginning quickly turns into a bloodbath when Jemma tries to steal a pair of overpriced jeans. After this, she meets her idol, Company founder Harold Landsgrove (Stephen Bogaert), during a speech promoting their new line of jeans called Super Shapers designer jeans, jeans that fit any body type. Hill), she meets overly enthusiastic store manager Craig (Brett Donahue). After meeting her rather unenthusiastic coworkers, Shruti (Sehar Bhojani), Jemma (Hanneke Talbot), and Hunter (Jessica B. The film then cuts to Libby McClean (Romane Denis), a young girl who is just beyond thrilled to have just gotten a job at CCC. The corporation in question: the trendy clothing store Canadian Cotton Clothier, the overly cheerful store with overly peppy and over-worked employees. Slaxx begins off in a cotton field with a Bollywood track as the opening music, seemingly referencing the Indian workers growing crops for huge corporations.
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