This is the card greeting left by the courier when the recipient is away from home. Also the name of the movie. It's a movie about a courier, and it's not exactly a movie about a courier. The courier is just an entry point, the focus is on the family. The director recruited many non-professional actors, and it can be said that many actors are just playing themselves. It also fits well with the presentation of the film - a pseudo-documentary way of presenting the unreal but reflecting the real content. The conversation between the male protagonist Ricky and his employer at the beginning of the movie is heard before anyone else hears it. This monologue is a simple but profound description of Ricky's life. He is a person from the bottom of the society, and many of the jobs he does are also low-level jobs. Because of the subprime mortgage crisis, he went bankrupt and had to choose a job as a courier without labor security. Fortunately, the salary is not bad, and he can barely accept it. When it comes to the express delivery industry, capitalists at home and abroad have chosen the form of outsourcing invariably. Without signing contracts and labor relations, couriers cannot be guaranteed. Not only a courier, my father was a truck driver, so was the form of work. Ricky is also a father with two children. The entire film focuses primarily on Ricky's work and family. His wife, Abby, is a caregiver who has no base salary and is paid based on the number of customers. The couple, if they were placed in our country, would be proper temporary workers. Son Seba is a high school student, rebellious and depraved, and a source of trouble in Ricky's family and work. Daughter Lisa is younger, obedient and sensible, and is her parents' little padded jacket. From the beginning, Ricky's life is stuck in an endless loop. He took on debt and lost his job because of the subprime mortgage crisis. In order to cheer up again, he chose the job of a courier, but in order to be a courier, he had to buy a truck, which made him more debt. In order to help him buy a car, Abby sold his car and paid the down payment for the car. And she only has to take the bus to work at the client's house, which adds to her commute time. We often praise Chinese women for being forbearing and strong. In fact, which country is not the case for women? As long as she is a responsible wife and mother, she must be forbearing and strong. But what surprised me is that a Volkswagen van costs only 14,000 pounds, which is only 120,000 yuan in RMB. Sure enough, Chinese cars are more expensive than foreign ones. Debt-stressed couples can't breathe, they don't have time to rest, rest means no income, and Ricky even has to lose money. Every step of theirs is so hard. What's more helpless is that they also have a troublesome son. Seba fights, steals, doesn't change, and in that sense, he's an asshole. However, Abby and Ricky barely beat him. This surprised me a lot, perhaps because of the difference in educational concepts between the East and the West, they believe that they must reason with their children. Although there are fierce words, but in the whole movie, Ricky only hit his son once. It's hard to say which way of education is better, but for me, Seba really needs to suffer a little. In my opinion, mistakes are big or small. It doesn't matter if you break a plate or talk back to your parents. But the act of stealing is no longer a small mistake, and the father needs to seriously let him understand the meaning of crime. Seba didn't admit his fault at all after stealing, and I don't think it's an exaggeration to be beaten at this time. But Seba's fall cannot be entirely blamed on himself. The film also revealed the tragic reality of Western education through his mouth. Ricky doesn't want his son to be like him. He wants his son to go to college and find a good job. However, Seba said that another friend's brother in the community had a loan to go to college and owed more than 50,000 pounds. Now he can only work as an operator, chatting to get by, and on weekends, he goes to the bar to borrow wine to drown his worries. Going to college doesn't seem like a good way out for the poor. Ricky is in debt. If Seba goes to college, he will be in debt before graduating. For Seba, there is no way out. The employment problem of college graduates is also a problem in China. After graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree, the jobs they do may have a monthly salary of less than 4,000 yuan. There is only one reason, there are too many college students. College graduates are one of the cheapest labor forces in society today, and the only ones cheaper than college students are the elderly left behind in rural areas. Of course, we can't make generalizations, and there are many people who got out of the bottom by relying on their education. But how much? Not much, learning can indeed help people get out of the predicament, but in terms of ratio, the number of people who get out of their own class by learning is not more than the people who get out of the class by other means. In times of peace, society is so stable, and so are the classes. However, there is no denying the importance of education in today's society. Having an education will not make your life easier, but without an education, your life may be more difficult. Only people with a wealthy family can live easily. Although the son is rebellious, he also truly loves his parents. Although the quarrel was fierce before, after Ricky was robbed and injured by the gangster, he would come to care about his father's situation. This kind of parent-child relationship generally exists in the worlds of the East and the West. Parents and children will always be at each other's throats due to certain things, but the feelings of mutual love will lubricate the tense relationship between the two sides from time to time. The family is such a contradictory existence. Besides, Ricky had something that many fathers didn't have—he would reflect on his actions and apologize. Dongfang's father, on the other hand, was often out of face, and even if he was wrong, he would not admit it. Western for face demand is much weaker. The presence of sister Lisa also played an important role in easing family conflicts. Daughter can be said to be the guiding point of family relationship. When Seba and his parents have conflict, Lisa's appearance will always distract everyone's focus to a certain extent, so that the conflict will not be further escalated. After Ricky was robbed and injured by a gangster, the foreman explained some insurance compensation issues, and then asked Ricky to compensate for the damaged scanner because the scanner was not covered by insurance. The ruthlessness of capital and the ruthlessness of society are highlighted here. People have no value, labor is valuable. But you can't blame the foreman. He is just working hard, and he didn't deliberately target Ricky. He is just a screw in capital, and he is just playing his role as a screw. It's like you're holding back your anger and wanting to vent, but you can't find the purpose. Everyone hates capitalists, but where are the capitalists? It’s like the relationship between takeaway riders and customers. In essence, the takeaway platform is squeezing riders, but in the end it becomes a contradiction between customers and riders. However, without a takeaway platform, riders have no jobs. Capital and labor are a contradictory whole, and it is the government's job to reconcile them. At the end of the movie, Ricky still drove the truck to deliver the courier despite his family's obstruction. Life has to go on. Ricky finally left a note to Abby with the note "Sorry, we missed you", signed with a smiley face, but he cried in the car. For his family, he owes his work, and for his work, he owes his family. We missed you's note to Abby with a smiley face, but he cried in the car. For his family, he owes his work, and for his work, he owes his family. We missed you's note to Abby with a smiley face, but he cried in the car. For his family, he owes his work, and for his work, he owes his family.
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