Life is not easy, only hug

Mona 2022-04-21 09:03:04

I watched it a long time ago, and I think the second half of the movie is the most uncomfortable. I slowly feel that the family feels the plight of each other and hugs each other warmly. At the end, they ruthlessly repeat the life at the beginning of the movie. struggle. In addition to their own efforts, many objective changes in the environment have compromised life or faced difficulties again and again. No matter what age group, everyone has their own practice in life, life is not easy, only hug and warm.

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  • Verlie 2022-03-28 09:01:10

    After watching "American Factory", it's very magical to watch this; human beings are imagining a world after robots completely replace labor, but they don't really think about themselves that machines, as an absolutely fair and absolutely ruthless existence, have already become the exoskeleton of labor - the courier's The punch card device and the son's mobile phone are the two extremes of being controlled by a machine and created by a machine; I firmly believe that street art still has the power to penetrate capital. .

  • Jamey 2022-01-16 08:02:11

    In a sense, Ken Roach has always been an embarrassing existence. Realism as an art genre was sentenced to death as a capitalist ventriloquism decades ago, but on the other hand, Ken Roach’s Each work instilled his care for the bottom people and his criticism of capitalism. It is under such a strong humanity that "Sorry We Missed You" has a more complex text than "I Am Blake", and it is also more penetrating and impactful. Not only does it depict the more embarrassing and chaotic situation in which families at the bottom have become more embarrassed and chaotic after owning a truck (the production material provided by the capitalist to the laborers) through the fading out of the black field and the distinctly structured melodrama. The fine stitching of "Complete the reference to the pervasive modern capitalism (advertising, big data...) penetration and corrosion, and finally complete the end with the laborers being completely fixed by capital, and also (very consistently) in the film The focus on family and community crises is integrated as an aid to the main plot. I don’t particularly like the "outdated" Ken Roach, but he is really a good director

Sorry We Missed You 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?