Blake, a worker who lost his job due to a heart attack, was unable to receive financial benefits due to social welfare rules. He still helped single mother Katie in the process of fighting for it, and eventually died of a heart attack while claiming the benefits.
The proposition discussed in the film is that people at the bottom of the society who really need subsidies, elderly people who have lost their labor force, and single mothers with two children should not be facing a society that only recognizes rules, but should be more humane. .
As a developed country, the United Kingdom has a very complete welfare system, pension and medical care, etc., provided that the people have to pay high taxes. Blake, the hero of the film, is from the perspective of personal dignity. Although he lives in a crowded poor community, he insists that he should enjoy the right to social assistance to get through the period of illness, and he also insists on helping others even if he needs to sell some furniture to make a living.
But at the same time, the welfare of the UK is at a moderate level in Europe, and even refugees can enjoy welfare assistance. The government has formulated many assessment rules for this. In the operation of the social machine, the power of the individual is very small. Katie is the one who really needs help. She even starved for a few days because she was a few minutes late, couldn't afford electricity, and even went to the supermarket to steal and participate in assisted dating in order to make the child better.
Of the two children in the story, one becomes autistic and the other is very precocious. This presentation is very infectious to the characters in the sympathy show. This film has reached a very natural state, there are no traces of drama, the structure is just a simple alternation, the real presentation is enough to move, and the ending is also done without routines, without defining the success or failure of the appeal, just a system defeated by the system. people.
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