bnb Germinal: A Sad Story Germinal is a movie which was based on Emile Zola’s novel Germinal and directed by Claude Berri. The movie displays the lives of the miner workers and how they were exploited in the 19 th century. The movie is not an encouraging one although the plot contains an uprising against employers. The movie is set in an environment where everybody is working so hard but earning so lile that they can hardly feed themselves and their families. Therefore the plot and the seng make the audience feel sad and gloomy. It was upseng and devastang for me too to watch all the hunger and pain throughout the movie. I was really impressed by the mother of the family, Maheude. She was a brave woman. As a mother she had the intenons to save her children. However she didn’t do this working in the miners, being a part of the cruel system and earning money for the family. Instead, she tried to disrupt the cruel system and make it a beer one. She didn’t choose the easy way out but stood out for her and all other miner workers’ rights. As Karl Marx suggests, we see that capitalism only benefits the employers who hold the power in the society. In Germinal, the employers threaten their workers with discharging them which means extreme poverty and hunger for the miner workers. The system is strictly based on the exploitaon of the workers. The workers are seen in the miners for most of the day. The money they earn is not enough for a whole family. They are not seen as individuals but a group of people who are crucial for the miners to work and make the bosses richer and richer. Just as Karl Marx predicts the uprising starts from the proletarian class against the system which sucks the blood out of them day by day. However the uprising ends unsuccessfully. The movie especially reminded me of Soma incident in which 301 miners passed away. They could have been saved if the firm has built life chambers in the miners. The firm thought that the life chambers were unnecessarily expensive. Apparently for them, their income was much more important than their workers’ lives.