The real life is to face the collapse again and again, and then hold on again and again

Xzavier 2022-04-22 07:01:48

After a business trip in Chongqing, I went back to Shenzhen to finish the flight. This film feels more like a documentary than a movie. The life of the male protagonist and his wife can be said to be very bleak. Both of them have to work for a long time in exchange for a little salary to avoid children sleeping on the street. The boss of the male protagonist only treats you as a ruthless machine, a system that is so harsh and impersonal that the female protagonist is a nurse, facing customer complaints and even scratching under uncontrollable circumstances, and needs to serve without any emotion, time The couple, who are not enough for part-time work, have long since returned home and have no intention or physical strength to turn their lives upside down and chat with their children. One thing after another, I feel like I'm going to collapse hundreds of times when I look at it... Although it's very frustrating, but in the subtleties behind each conflict, I can capture some tender fragments, such as what my father wrote to my mother. Message, the rebellious son went home to visit the injured father, and the message to the customer when the younger daughter accompanied the courier. I have been thinking about how this terrible life will be broken, and what is the way back? But in the end, no answer was given. Even though he was covered in bruises and suffered injustice, when the sun rose as usual the next day, everything seemed to have not changed. Let his wife and children live on the streets, he also wants to live seriously...

A little touched, pay tribute to our ordinary, ordinary and hard-working people

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  • Nickolas 2022-03-16 09:01:06

    It's been a long time since I cried so hard in the theater. Think about the current nationalist wave in Europe. It’s really too easy to be incited to live so hard. “It’s all immigrants who rob jobs and make our wages so low.” In fact, they are all black-hearted capitalists.

  • 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, everyone is bound by himself, alienated by the surrounding environment, and the family tends to Due to the collapse, the relationship between people tends to deteriorate, and what Ken Lodge is looking for is not a solution to capitalism, but a kind, human outlet, and what he is asking for is actually more than we think. Less so, but he does ask an important question: What is it that makes us what we are? That's why, even on such a commonplace topic, we are still touched by this simplicity and straightforwardness, just as we are also touched by Toki's classicism. After all, people are people, not machines. people!

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?