we missed you

Icie 2022-03-22 09:02:39

The story of the film is as simple as ever. Ricky, a blue-collar worker, turns to the courier industry to become a delivery worker in order to earn more wages. To pay for the van, her wife Abby had to sell her car. They have a sensible 11-year-old daughter Liza and a rebellious teenage son Seb. Ken Lodge only uses a minimalist story to present a multi-dimensional orientation: father-son conflict, family education, growing up troubles, gig economy, exploitative labor market... These clues are closely intertwined and criss-crossed.

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  • Gerardo 2022-03-15 09:01:06

    B+ / Much better than the previous work of Palme d’Or. Except for the strong transition at the end, almost all the techniques are plain and confidently focused on the social culture of the characters and their delicate interactions. Even if you peel off the flesh and blood, you may see a similar template, but how can the flesh and blood be peeled off?

  • Dasia 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    Ken Loach, the spokesperson for our social animals and working people. The water is hot and the world is real, but you have to live despite this. The father is a workaholic, the mother is too hard? The son is troublesome, and the daughter is cute~

Sorry We Missed You quotes

  • Abbie Turner: This is my family, and I'm telling you now, nobody messes with my family.

  • Ricky: I don't know what's got into you, I really don't. You're a smart kid just like Liza. You used to be in all the top sets. What is going on? Just give yourself some choices mate.

    Abbie Turner: Seb?

    Seb: Hmm-mm?

    Abbie Turner: We've talked about this. You could go to uni.

    Seb: Go to uni? What, and be like Harpoon's brother? £57 grand in debt and what? Working in a call centre now, getting smashed every weekend just to forget his problems. Of course.

    Ricky: Yeah, but it doesn't have to be like that does it? There's some good jobs out there.

    Seb: Good jobs? What good jobs?

    Ricky: Well there is if you just knuckle down. Give yourself some options. Otherwise you're just going to end up like...

    Seb: What, like you?

    Ricky: Oh fucking nice!

    Abbie Turner: Seb...

    Seb: Do you really think I want that? Really?

    Ricky: Yeah...

    Seb: Well yeah of course I do don't I? I want to be like you.

    Ricky: Yeah, going from shit job to shit job, working 14 hours a day, having to put up with everyone else's shit. Going from one shit job to another shit job. You're just going to end up a skivvy.

    Seb: A skivvy? It's your choice to be a skivvy isn't it? A skivvy doesn't come to, you, you go to it - right?

    Ricky: I'm doing my best Seb.

    Seb: Maybe your best isn't good enough, is it?