Today, let's talk about the movie "Sorry, We Missed You".
The title is Sorry We Missed You (2019), alias Sorry, Missed You (Hong Kong) / Sorry We Missed You (Taiwan).
Director Ken Loach, who focuses on showing people at the bottom of society, will focus on an ordinary family this time. The story takes place and is filmed in Newcastle, northern England.
A family of four is in financial trouble due to the subprime mortgage crisis.
In order to maintain the family life, the male host Ricky decided to apply for the courier of the PDF express company. It seems that there is still hope for life.
"Sorry, we missed you. sorry we missed you." is the slogan of the PDF express company.
The PDF express company is the largest in the country to have this name, which is estimated to be an insinuation of the British exel express company.
After losing his job due to the subprime mortgage crisis, the owner, Ricky, felt that with his many years of driving experience, he could be a courier, so he invested a lot of money to become a courier for the company.
The hostess, Abbie, is a carer who specialises in serving a wide variety of disabled and elderly people who need to travel back and forth across the city.
In order to raise the initial capital of Ricky's business, Abby sold his car, so Abby could only squeeze the bus to work every day, and his work efficiency and quality of life plummeted.
And Ricky's courier work is not smooth sailing. He has to face serious and ruthless bosses and various customers all day long, and his work pressure is very high.
Ricky's son Sebastian and daughter Lisa are also in constant condition.
Sebu is in a period of rebellion, cynical all day long, does not study hard, and hangs out with other troubled youths.
Lisa is young and sensitive. The changes in her family directly affect her spirit, and Lisa has become extremely vulnerable.
The subprime mortgage crisis swept away the wealth of ordinary people is just the beginning of the tragedy, and losing their jobs is only the first step in their descent into the abyss.
Life didn't get any better because of their hard work, but plummeted toward the bottomless abyss.
Director Ken Lodge has been telling the stories of the underprivileged for decades.
Like his previous works, Ken Loach disliked the use of well-known actors, preferring to shoot with unknown actors and non-actors.
Because these unrecognizable actors can make it easier for audiences to believe that the film is about the survival of ordinary people.
The lead actor, Kris Hitchen, is exactly where the director is supposed to be.
He turned into an actor in his 40s and worked as a plumber before, and his performance in the film stems from that experience.
Ricky's story was partly inspired by the experiences of DPD courier Don Lane.
Don Lane died of illness during the Christmas delivery rush in January 2018. He has diabetes and was once fined £150 by the DPD for attending a hospital appointment before skipping several hospital appointments for type 1 diabetes in fear of being fined.
The film "Sorry, We Missed You" seems to have an unremarkable plot, but it is heartbroken everywhere. The director seems to install cameras on us ordinary people, and shoots our daily life and work content.
Under the Matthew effect, the poor are getting poorer and poorer, and everyone is a slave of capital. The difference is that those who do not struggle become poorer at a slower speed, while those who struggle become poor faster.
Some films have made common problems that exist in various countries. Getting rich by working and getting rich by hard work have become the most deceptive lies.
The proletariat who does not master the resources of production, no matter how hard they work, will end up with nothing.
From the very first moment they start working, they are pinpointed by the capitalists.
Capital controls production resources and controls the law. There are countless legal means to control workers, and there will be defaults, fines, and prosecutions at every turn.
It is said that direction is more important than effort. Efforts to choose the wrong direction are futile, and society leaves people of Ricky's class with only a 360-degree dead end.
The harder you work, the faster you hit the wall, but you stay where you are, so you don't get hurt.
Ruiqi was ashamed of receiving relief funds with good hands and feet, and was proud to say that he had never received a single penny of relief funds.
And it turns out that life wouldn't have gotten so bad if he had just stayed home and lived on the dole.
He wanted to work hard to get rich, and he was determined to go out to work, but the result was instant poverty.
The bottom is all dead ends,
Effort will accelerate the bottom.
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