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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  • Tremaine 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    After the father and son quarrel, they immediately cut to the mother and then there must be tears on their cheeks. After the emotional explosion, they immediately cut the shocked faces of others. I am really fed up with this kind of drama. If the tone of the female protagonist's reading of white at work is in line with the work itself, it is disgusting to use the same tone in the emotional explosion scene. "A little more miserable" may be for empathy, but it only makes people feel stereotyped and fake. It is also a stereotype that the family should reconcile when a disaster occurs, which leads to a hilarious comedy that follows a crowd of demons, which completely destroys the already diluted tone.

  • Mike 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    After the show, I heard several audiences say why they want to watch such a mourning movie on the big weekend. Actually, my heart is the same. Obviously I have been extremely pessimistic, and know that Ken Roche's social position will not easily give up torturing the conscience of the audience. This is still the most unwilling film for the entire European Film Festival to miss. How should I put it to say, to constantly face the pain, guilt, and systemic failure that cannot be added is an important and necessary torture today. I don't think this is an aesthetic issue, it is a political issue above all. At the same time, I admire these actors very much. I doubt that today's Chinese actors can understand the feelings of the people at the bottom in such a professional and meticulous way.

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?