When watching a movie, without knowing the background of the movie, I always wondered if this was the dilemma of life during the "subprime mortgage crisis" more than ten years ago? It wasn’t until I saw the familiar smartphone "iPhone" and its cookie-cutter ringtones that I knew that they could be anyone around us, an aunt who would say "good morning" when I met you every morning while cleaning the stairwell. ；It’s an aunt who has visited her food stall countless times, but she still has to bargain every time she buys food; she is a courier guy who wears uniform work clothes and rides a small three-wheeled fast shuttle between the buildings... If society is like a piece of skin , They are tiny moles on the skin, they occupy a tiny part of the "skin", over the years, they have become the most forgotten existence.
"Sorry, We Missed You" is about the life of a working-class. It is not a farce, not a dispute between sons and daughters, or the ups and downs of life. It is an endless calm, it is In a puddle of water, we are the fish in it, and we can't breathe when we jump out.
The father Ricky in the film used to be a motivated construction worker, but because of the subprime mortgage crisis, he lost his job and was unable to borrow money to buy a house. He started doing odd jobs to subsidize his family. Ricky wanted to become a truck driver for a courier company, either renting a car, or buying a car, express delivery The boss of the company made Ricky's heart touched, "self-employed", which is what he dreamed of. After he sold his wife's car, he bought a brand new truck and started to give it away. He was greeted by the courier company’s endless unequal treaties, and “self-employed” became a joke.
In the context of the times, injustice mainly comes from society and work for men, while for women, injustice not only comes from work, but also from family. Mother Abby is a carer. She needs a car to commute. When her husband asked her to sell the car and buy a truck, she resisted, but still chose to obey. When Abby worked overtime, the company did not pay her overtime pay. She chose to help the client free of charge out of compassion. She had complaints, but she hid them all. The male’s anger is like thunder and lightning before a heavy rain, and the female’s anger is like the calm before an avalanche. It touches the whole body. In the face of family, she chooses to be patient, and in the face of work, she chooses to be patient. To tune the relationship between the father and the child, she must also deal with the client and the company. The domestication of the society allows her to take care of the "inside", and family conditions allow her to take care of the "outside". Her difficulties are the most dumb and silent. The husband is the fish that can rise to the surface and breathe. She is the fish that struggles in the muddy bottom but sinks deeper and deeper.
"Sorry, we missed you" is a sentence written on the card that the British courier left for the customer during the delivery process, and the customer had something and could not sign for it. "Sorry, we missed you" is a very human sentence, it invisibly shortens the distance between the courier and the recipient, "miss" can mean missed or missed. It represents a miss, but if this sentence is placed in the background of the protagonist's work, it becomes a mechanical and impersonal repetition. Just as the courier company boss said to Ricky, the courier who is the head of the family, “Customers who will really greet the courier, you fell asleep while driving and collided with a bus, they don’t care, they only care about freight, efficiency and collection. "
When each of us depends on "data", when everything in society cannot do without "data", people themselves are a string of "code" in computer language, and programmers When designing a "program", they can use big data to accurately calculate the delivery time per hour and minute, but this time does not include the time for the courier to eat or the time to go to the toilet, because they It is life outside of work and cannot be part of work.
People use big data to develop a more convenient life and to pursue an intelligent life, just like a scanner worth a thousand dollars in a movie, it can help you guide the way, track car driving data, collect recipients and send items Human information, which was invented for the purpose of serving couriers, has become an accomplice of capital. Perhaps humans are not making machines, but transforming humans into machines. When a capitalist squeezes out the value of the people at the bottom, it is like a hungry dog gnawing on bones and grinning, as if the meaty bones are not its food, but its enemy. They bite fiercely, and the meat in every crevice will be destroyed. He was clean, and in the end, he had to use the smooth bones to sharpen his teeth.
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