Self-reflection from a little movie viewing extension

Hillard 2022-04-23 07:03:53

Sorry we missed you.

Sorry I really don't have much resonance.

It may be that I am superficial, and I can't tell the director's life or talk about the barriers to capitalist development. The most impressive thing in the whole film is the protagonist's accent, the wife's work attitude as a nurse, and the hospital's outburst.

One film review said that the blockbuster movies were dressed in flamboyant clothes, and their addiction to clever gimmicks was getting further and further away from the real world. I really can't agree. According to this statement, why should I watch drama movies, documentaries and news reports are more real.

As I get older, read books and watch movies, I seem to have more and more initiative to feed back to the real world. When I was accused of lacking realistic emotional expression, I once said that I have enough empathy ability to understand the stories and emotions in the text or the camera. , but I don't know if it is simply because of age, dealing with incidents and dealing with more and more complicated objects, really need weapons to arm myself and seek answers, or is it affected by the way people around me think. It seems to be a sense of substitution, looking at it in a simple and practical way, rather than flying in the air trying to find the grasp of the grand narrative.

If you used to throw away yourself, or more precisely, your own life, just strip out your rational or emotional understanding and sensibility, and devote yourself to the text and appreciate other people’s stories, now you seem to be taking the small world behind you and squeezing in. Go, or pull in the dummy text, and look at the "elsewhere" that lives elsewhere.

The word squeeze is really suitable here, because my life is very narrow, and I often find texts and images difficult to understand. Using my reserves is not enough to contain and digest them. What I often do is deconstruction, not books. The more I read, the thinner the deconstruction, but after the deconstruction was fruitless, I reluctantly knocked down two bricks that I could move and built it into my own knowledge structure. This sometimes annoys me. I don't know if it is a kind of information cocoon, and the lack of understanding can easily breed frustration.

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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?