At the end of the film, the man with bandages on his hands, his face swollen to the point of rot, and a man with invisible eyes, got into his truck with his back and the pain in his chest.
"Son, I'm going to work, I don't have a choice."
Yes, for a dad, Ricky doesn't have a choice. For a better home, for the wife's car that was sold at the beginning of the business, for the loan of thousands of dollars, for the goods that were robbed yesterday, the passport indemnity, and that damn capitalist scanning gun worth 1,000 euros... He There is no way not to go to work, there is no way to take an extra day off, or even two hours.
Life is too hard for them.
Ken Lodge's 2019 "Sorry We Missed You" made me cry almost from the beginning to the end, I wish I was the one I didn't understand, I wish I was the one who would feel that Ken Lodge used to drama The one, wish life wasn't like that...and yet, it is. What's more, my life is somewhat similar to the Ricky family, do you want to understand? impossible. Not upset? too difficult.
In the film, I saw a helpless father who was running for a better life but always backfired; a virtuous mother who constantly sacrificed herself for the sake of a comprehensive family, customer satisfaction, and dedication to everything; The rebellious elder brother who was in adolescence under the pressure of debt; and the little sister in a padded jacket who did not like to quarrel and cared, this is an extremely ordinary family of four.
"Dad lost a stable job because of the social tide, and the bank's collapse made them miss their house." This is what Abby said when he was chatting with the old man with a photo. Bad luck, so that their lives have not been in their early days. However, the gentle Abby didn't complain too much. "A lot of people are the same," she said.
Many people are the same, they are just an ordinary family of tens of millions of people at the bottom of the society struggling to live in poverty.
In the movie, my favorite is actually Abby, as if seeing my mother.
The husband found a job delivering a courier, sold his wife's scooter, and took out a loan to buy a truck. The details of the film are really too strong, from the disdain of supervision at the interview to the sadness and tiredness after work are clearly portrayed on the face. Seeing Abby calling for an hour of overtime at the bus station, because she is easy to talk, because she has a sense of responsibility, she has become a soft persimmon in the hands of the company, leaving all the dirty work to her, working all day 14 hours, charging according to visiting customers, and paying for all the round-trip fares by myself, poking into the deepest part of my heart. Because she treats her customers as her mother and takes care of them meticulously, the company treats her like my mother, she is delicate, gentle and patient.
My mother also does a similar job. Some families share each other's joy with her in her spare time, and are very grateful for her care and patience; And for her life and for me, she can only choose to endure. The family change made her leave her hometown to do things that she had never encountered in the past 40 years, and suffered from anger she had never experienced before. Before, I never understood her changes. This movie made me understand the irritability and helplessness of this father, and also made me understand all the grievances and changes of my mother.
The film only records the ordinary days of ordinary people's lives, without life, there is no income, and there is a debt crisis waiting for them. At the end of the movie, the injured father drove away the truck resolutely when his son and wife came to stop him. The sun swept across, and he covered the swollen eye with his hand. Who didn't want to rest, but he couldn't stop, because he knew exactly what was waiting for him.
The van drives away... The film's open ending leaves people with hope, but also a hidden bomb. May every ordinary family be safe and healthy.
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