In the early twentieth century, the U.S. government tended to cooperate very closely with big business until the Great Depression, when it began siding with workers. In France, the history of labor is an equally fraught narrative. In each of the two films, consider the different roles of the state and its relationship to business and/or labor interests (for example, as police enforcers, censors, public administrators, defenders of public welfare, guarantors of law and justice). Using concrete examples from the two films, describe the vision of the state that each filmmaker was putting forward, and provide reasons to account for any similarities or differences.
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