The main thread of the film is Blake's process of applying for employment support allowances, which begins with staff inquiries and ends with a collapsed death in the toilet before the grievance interview.
Because of serious heart problems, Blake's doctor suggested that he should not continue to work, but the medical insurance assessor determined that he had the ability to work and refused to apply for employment support allowance. Facing Blake was the complicated process of appealing employment support allowance and applying for unemployment benefits when he retired. But the unemployment allowance also has many requirements to meet the standard. The initial application form, because of the default digital work mode, made Blake, who does not understand computers, bewildered. He finally typed out the form, went to the resume training class, and sent his resume. Penalized for not providing proof that he was looking for a job.
The contradiction lies in the fact that he can only apply for unemployment benefits if he has the working conditions, but to apply for unemployment benefits, he needs to actively participate in finding a job, but even if he gets a job opportunity, he will not be able to get a job because of his physical condition, so no matter how hard Blake tries, he is still There is no way to receive the employment support allowance that they are entitled to, but they are considered by the employment promotion center to be unreasonable, and the recruiting boss thinks that they are social assholes who only receive "welfare".
While dealing with government workers, Black met a single-parent woman in London who was punished for not arriving at the designated location on time because she had just arrived from out of town with two children. She loves her children very much, and she tries very hard to make this home more like home, but from being at a food pantry, she can't help eating canned food, to stealing sanitary napkins at the supermarket, to the last Being a prostitute earns more financial resources for the family. Dignity is the most valuable thing for a person, but a life of shame forces people to ignore their own dignity, makes people lose their dignity, and makes people collapse.
I was impressed by three places in the play, the first scene where Blake went to the place where she was a prostitute, Blake was like her parents to a London woman, and letting her parents know that she was in such a bad time was a very special thing. Embarrassing thing, she was very emotional, fell into a breakdown, and felt that she didn't have the face to see Blake again. Blake made her a bookshelf, hoping she could continue her studies and stick to it. She may think she has made £300 to buy fresh fruit for her family and that her daughter won't be ridiculed by her classmates because her shoe comes off the glue.
The second act is the cumbersome procedural process of Black's unemployment benefits, which makes Black give up and seek to appeal the employment support allowance instead, and express his demands on the outer wall of the government work unit. Black begins to resist, instead of serving as a government worker. at the mercy of.
In the third act, at the final funeral, the London woman reads aloud what Blake had intended to say during his appeal.
He is a passionate man, but the government let such a man leave us prematurely
"I'm Blake, I'm an upright person, I don't seek alms, I just take back the rights that belong to me, I hope you can treat me with respect."
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