"What else can be done"

Holden 2022-04-23 07:03:53

"What else can be done"

This line is from "The Elephant Sitting on the Floor" directed by Hu Bo. In the 3 hours and 50 minutes of the film, there is no solution to the troubles of life, maybe they are very fucked up in the first place.

Director Ken Rocky also calmly expressed the problems that need to be faced in life. It seems that there are no earth-shattering dramatic changes, but those real problems can also make people collapse. Everyone has their own life to face all kinds of problems, maybe this problem has a solution, maybe there is no solution.

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  • Rachelle 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    What is life? Life is Ken Lodge. 1.5@Shenzhen Broadway Film Center

  • Aidan 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    I like it unexpectedly, but it may be because it is the first time I read Ken Loach (?) The story of a poor couple's Hundred Days of Mourning, a powerful refutation of "poor is because of not working hard", an indictment of capitalism and new-style labor exploitation . In fact, I don't think it's too miserable, but this family is truly living on the edge (of course, this is not even an extremely poor family, just a family struggling to live better because it still has dignity and affection A story on the edge of life, but also enough with some sort of urban household generality) so can't afford to lose any further scrolling down. But in the end, I don't particularly like it

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?