some impressions and ramblings

Lera 2022-04-22 07:01:48

A few impressive scenes:

1. Four people sit together and eat Indian takeaway

2. Ricky and Lisa are sitting and eating sandwiches in the suburbs (Lisa's side face is innocent and pure in the sun, full of hope and vitality in life) 3. Lisa returns the truck key to her father crying

4. Abby lost control in the hospital (it felt like Jiang Yang lost his wallet)

5. Seb and Abby don't let the injured Ricky go to work, close-up of Ricky in the car

Some other ideas:

1. As a specific example of the Matthew effect - "Anyone who is less, even what he has, will be taken away." This sense is very similar to the black mirror S3E1nosedive. However, the film adds more realistic elements, especially family elements.

Black Mirror Season 3 (2016)
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2. Emotional forbearance, but hidden under the slightly fluctuating sea surface is great pain. It wasn't until he gave his son Seb a slap that Ricky's emotions rushed out for the first time, much like the gunshots at the end of "Hunting", deafening

Hunting (2012)
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The final result shows that even if life is difficult, life still has to be lived

3. A letter to capitalism. If labor laws are on the side of workers, capitalists can no longer exploit workers, and in the end the company goes bankrupt, don’t you workers also have no jobs? In the end, the unlucky ones are you and your workers. Is this really the case?

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Extended Reading

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?