I went to Poly Tiananmen Square to watch the movie alone at 9 o'clock in the evening. I especially wanted to watch this film because I was filming and framing the introduction in Newcastle, England, the city I went to exchange three years ago. When I heard the familiar highland accent and saw the black and white striped Newcastle United team uniform, my heart surged and I felt cordial.
(Spoilers involved hereafter
After that, I was tightly grasped by the plot and never relaxed for a moment. The protagonist’s family is ordinary. After the financial crisis, the protagonist got into employment difficulties. He was helpless to find a courier company to deliver couriers to Apple, Amazon and other brands. He worked 14 hours a day, six days a week, and was fined for delays or leave; Nine went to take care of the patients who could not take care of themselves. The endgame of feces and urinary incontinence on the other side could only apply a little peppermint oil to the nose to make herself less nauseous. The son entered the youth rebellious period, skipped class and wrote graffiti art with friends on public buildings. When asked why he didn't work hard to apply for college, he asked that having a diploma is not like his father. Life is so cruel, family quarrels, hard work, the separated family can't afford a little emergency, my father was robbed by a few gangsters when delivering the goods, lost the goods, broke the equipment, suffered a whole body injury, and was also exposed to a shower. Urine, received a call from the supervisor and was told that he would face a huge fine and still cannot ask for leave.
In the last twenty minutes, I saw that my heart and stomach were about to be pulled together, sobbing with my mother, facing the cruel life's powerlessness, exhaustion and suffocation, with no end in sight. In my previous knowledge, the people I met in Newcastle were very polite and decent. I always thought that they can treat others with a smile and help others because of their happiness. The cashiers, maintenance workers, and bus drivers I met were all so decent, and they were not at all embarrassed by life. I thought everyone could live a good life no matter what position they were in, perform their duties, and enjoy free medical care. , Enjoy the national welfare, have the protection of the trade union, you can get something as long as you work hard. Obviously, I am naive. Britain also has social inequality, class mobility that cannot be surpassed, and poverty that is difficult to escape from being trapped, no matter how hard people work. The sad thing is that everyone is in the same city, but everyone seems to be in different dimensions, different classes, and different identities. The world of foreign students and ordinary British people are only limited. Politely and out of the intersection of official business, their real face is like the glass through the window, only a little glimpse of the life used for display. On the way back to the dormitory, I sometimes met one or two homeless men in sleeping bags, young men, sitting on the side of the road in winter. I have had discussions with friends abroad about these homeless people. At that time, I made a very arbitrary conclusion: these people are not worthy of sympathy, they are healthy, young and strong, and do not rely on themselves to fight, but here are the sympathy of passersby. For food; my friend was surprised at my righteous indignation, she felt that the other party was the helpless act of the poor man. Thinking about it now, maybe it's not so unimaginable from being unemployed to sleeping on the streets. Some are just poor people who have been fucked hard by life to lose their fighting spirit.
In the middle of the film, there is a segment of the male protagonist and the supervisor requesting leave. The supervisor did not approve the day's leave. "Do you think customers really care about how you are when they ask how are you? They only care when their packages will arrive. If everyone asks for leave like you, how can the company compete with other express companies and get the entrustment of large customers." Under the rolling and erosion of capital, no one can do anything except capitalists and the executive oppressors in the middle. Live decently. The director focuses on such an ordinary family, with strict fathers and loving mothers, and both children, but living more and more difficult, making people breathless. Asking about the system and the times, about the exploitation and oppression of capitalism, about the development of consumerism and technology. The weakness and powerlessness of the employed under the blessing. Witnessing aspiring people with wives and children falling into endless pain and despair, I imagine how many such families are still behind them, and how many bodies are beaten by life.
I want to be more gentle with this world, when I am still happy. Be an empathetic person, not a consumer who just refreshes the package process. If there is more power, it will be used to make the world better, less ferocious, and more tolerant.
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