Sorry We Missed You

Sorry We Missed You

  • Director: Ken Loach
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, France, Belgium
  • Language: English
  • Release date: March 6, 2020
  • Sound mix: Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Вас не було на місці
  • "Sorry We Missed You" is a feature film directed by British director Ken Loach , co-starring Chris Hitchin, Debbie Howard, and Rhys Stone. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2019.
    The film tells that Ricky, a blue-collar worker living in Newcastle, has been in debt since the 2008 financial crisis. In order to support his two children and family, Ricky applied to become a self-financing courier driver. A family of four struggled even more   .

    Details

    • Release date March 6, 2020
    • Filming locations Shields Road, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
    • Production companies Sixteen Films, BBC Films, BE TV

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $28,273

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $9,436

    Gross worldwide

    $8,943,674

    Movie reviews

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    • By Chris 2022-07-13 11:37:48

      Sorry We Missed You--Society Is Cruel And Predestined

      As soon as the image of a ladder appears in the head, the action that we imagine most of the time is to climb. However, what should be noticed is that not only does the length of the scale differ, but the horizon of the foot also differs.

      This kind of work recalls in a lucid way what happens in the popular environment, where the...

    • By Dandre 2022-04-23 07:03:53

      I just hope not to miss myself

      Mom is the greatest and gentlest person in the world

      Domestic couriers are much easier than them

      My son is too naive, but from his point of view, I'm not that rebellious teenager who can't accept reality, blame life, blame parents

      We are like ants and we have no power to fight back, only weeping silently. Life will not get better and this road will only get harder than you think. Adults are blind with...

    • By Hillard 2022-04-23 07:03:53

      Self-reflection from a little movie viewing extension

      Sorry we missed you.

      Sorry I really don't have much resonance.

      It may be that I am superficial, and I can't tell the director's life or talk about the barriers to capitalist development. The most impressive thing in the whole film is the protagonist's accent, the wife's work attitude as a nurse, and the hospital's outburst.

      One film review said that the blockbuster movies were dressed in flamboyant clothes, and their...

    • By Holden 2022-04-23 07:03:53

      "What else can be done"

      "What else can be done"

      This line is from "The Elephant Sitting on the Floor" directed by Hu Bo. In the 3 hours and 50 minutes of the film, there is no solution to the troubles of life, maybe they are very fucked up in the first place.

      Director Ken Rocky also calmly expressed the problems that need to be faced in life. It seems that there are no earth-shattering dramatic changes, but those real problems can also make people collapse....

    • By Oswaldo 2022-04-23 07:03:53

      Life is like a hemp, living is like suffering

      A very touching movie, and I honestly like it a lot. The film is calm and restrained, but also sincerely and naturally presents the life of the bottom people and the sadness of the workers. What is shocking is that such a difficult situation is not an isolated case, it is universal to a certain class. It can even be said that the family shown to us in this film is already relatively good. At least, the family is in love with each other. At least, parents can communicate, and family members...

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    • By Kamille 2022-03-28 09:01:10

      Kenloch's three hundred and sixty lines this time it's the courier's turn. I've been crying in the second half, it's too hard, life is too hard, this is a country where the Sex Pistols were born, who doesn't want to be a punk and fuck this world, but Kenloch's filming has no way out To resist, the fists swept out can only hit the air forever. What is the use of resisting, what is resisting, no one knows, the smoldering nameless anger is corrupted into despair. But even though it's a bitter...

    • By Houston 2022-03-28 09:01:10

      It is still a "beggar" movie, but this time we feel how "he" changed from "standing" to...

    • By Chadrick 2022-03-28 09:01:10

      Slightly inferior to its predecessor, but still a good one. It's not actually a simple capitalist issue, as employers also have plenty of time in the film to defend their claims, and Ken Loach tries to make the audience understand everyone's situation, rather than scribbling a sense of indifference Or vicious. This one will actually be more like "The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves", which has a deeper complexity than a simple social problem: it is related to the human condition. In modern society,...

    • By Myles 2022-03-28 09:01:10

      This is the "new realism" of the young Ken Lodge. When the "pure" neo-realism movement was fading in the tide of post-war reconstruction, Ken Lodge, as a latecomer, expressed a strong demand for realism in the past five decades, no less than "Theft of Bicycles". De Sica in The Man of Man or Visconti in The Waves of the Earth. As always, he pays attention to the life of the working people at the bottom, emphasizes the timeliness of the subject matter, and shows the living conditions of the...

    • By Roy 2022-03-28 09:01:10

      The poor and humble couples mourn the life of the urban poor. The title of the film was originally an apology to the customers who did not receive the express delivery, and it can also be understood as an apology to the urban bottom laborers who have been ignored for a long time. family. Ken Loach is very good at training non-professional...

    Movie plot

    Ricky (Chris Hitchen) lost his job and was heavily in debt due to the subprime mortgage crisis in Newska, northern England . Under the inducement of a freight express intermediary, Ricky bought a truck in the form of a mortgage, became his own boss, and started a freight express business. But in order to own this truck, the Ricky family began to embark on a path of no return. First, Abby (Debbie Howard), a wife who is doing...
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    Evaluation action

    "Sorry We Missed You" wants to explore the two dimensions of work and family. Although the characterization of the film is vivid and the mutual dependence between family members can also empathize, the tragedy seems a bit fussy. The core contradiction in the movie is that no matter how unwell the body is or what the family situation is, you must arrive on time. This is not typical for Chinese audiences. Ken Loach's movies always reveal...
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    Movie quotes

    • Abbie Turner: This is my family, and I'm telling you now, nobody messes with my family.

    • Ricky: I don't know what's got into you, I really don't. You're a smart kid just like Liza. You used to be in all the top sets. What is going on? Just give yourself some choices mate.

      Abbie Turner: Seb?

      Seb: Hmm-mm?

      Abbie Turner: We've talked about this. You could go to uni.

      Seb: Go to uni? What, and be like Harpoon's brother? £57 grand in debt and what? Working in a call centre now, getting smashed every weekend just to forget his problems. Of course.

      Ricky: Yeah, but it doesn't have to be like that does it? There's some good jobs out there.

      Seb: Good jobs? What good jobs?

      Ricky: Well there is if you just knuckle down. Give yourself some options. Otherwise you're just going to end up like...

      Seb: What, like you?

      Ricky: Oh fucking nice!

      Abbie Turner: Seb...

      Seb: Do you really think I want that? Really?

      Ricky: Yeah...

      Seb: Well yeah of course I do don't I? I want to be like you.

      Ricky: Yeah, going from shit job to shit job, working 14 hours a day, having to put up with everyone else's shit. Going from one shit job to another shit job. You're just going to end up a skivvy.

      Seb: A skivvy? It's your choice to be a skivvy isn't it? A skivvy doesn't come to, you, you go to it - right?

      Ricky: I'm doing my best Seb.

      Seb: Maybe your best isn't good enough, is it?