"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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  • Conrad 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    Never mind, we didn't miss Ken Lodge. Mr. Ken is like Eastwood in the UK - I mean the state of creation - growing stronger with age, getting stronger with age, not forgetting the original intention, and forging ahead. The tears shed in "I Am Blake" were not spared when watching this new work. Still angry, still sharp, still helpless, but insisting on expressing it is not a kind of resistance? This is not selling miserably, this is Du Fu writing the four characters of depression and frustration. As a country with such a developed logistics industry, why can't we see the story of the courier and the delivery boy on the big screen? Why is our realism either lingering in the genre or groaning in independence and not daring to attack head-on? Why can't we wait until Ken Loach and Mungi can only learn from Korean movies to stir the audience's nerves.

  • Cara 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    China does not have Ken Lodge

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?