The cheap hotel where Uncle Dafoe works has a dreamy name and a more dreamy color, but the color that deliberately caters to Disney and my Florida holiday paradise is gorgeous and cheap, just like the childhood of a film girl. Speaking of cheap hotels, I think of an article I read a long time ago. A female reporter concealed her high education, abandoned all credit cards, and brought a thousand yuan (500 yuan?) in cash to experience the life of a working woman at the bottom. She works a few jobs, but still can barely make ends meet. She said that if it were not for this thousand yuan, she would not have been able to survive. Because this money allows her to afford the deposit for renting a house instead of staying in a cheap hotel that can check out every day but is not cheap at all. In the film, the purple hotel where the girl and mother live is 38 yuan a day, which is 1285 per month (the general hotel also has 12.5% tax). In 2017, the average rent for one bedroom and one living room in Orlando was only 1091, and houses below 600 can also be found. Because there is no cash, coupled with possible bad credit records, and because Americans do not count, girls and mothers have to pay higher living costs than ordinary people.
Another advantage of renting is that you can cook your own meals. The mother and daughter in the film first relied on friends to get free food from fast food restaurants to make ends meet. After falling out with friends, I can only make the food delivery life stretched out immediately and have to pawn the ipad. This kind of life is bound to be unsustainable. The cheapest food in the United States is junk food. The money for an apple can buy a hamburger. Fruits and vegetables are not available everywhere in many places. You have to drive to the supermarket to buy them. For the people at the bottom who are struggling with two jobs, junk food is the only choice. The consequence of each junk food meal is that the obesity rate of the people at the bottom is exploding, and problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia will follow, and medical treatment and medicine are expensive. The mother actor in the film is an internet celebrity dug by the director. She has her own ready-to-wear brand. She has her sturdy and well-proportioned arms and thighs, and a flat abdomen. At first glance, she is the result of sweating in the gym and a balanced diet. The people at the bottom are more like her elder sister next door.
This society weaves a well-designed big net, trapping the bottom layer, (in fact, the middle class is not doing well, please see the lady bird in the same period for details), squeezing out their last drop of blood and sweat. And only in this way can middle-class people enjoy cheap goods and services, and capitalists can sit at home blowing air-conditioning and wait for money to produce more money, and then occasionally fund a movie, talk about the life of the bottom people, and shed two tears. His soul was purified and improved, and the blood on his hands was washed away.
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