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After watching this film, my heart is full of mixed feelings. In such a sketch-style film in a small space, it conveys too many hidden and not All of these accusations ultimately point to one point, that is, serious social problems in France.
It's a story of choice: Sandra, a mother of two and a depressive, finds herself in the midst of being laid off because of her foreman's lies. Sandra won her manager's right to have other colleagues vote for her again, and with her husband's ardent support, she went over two days over the weekend to persuade her co-workers to vote for her to keep her. To vote for her, you must give up the 1,000 yuan bonus. The process was very painful, especially for a depression patient like her, but after a series of complicated negotiations, she still won the opportunity for herself to return to work on the day of voting, but when the manager said that because of her One of her 17 co-workers had to be fired, because when the workload of 16 people was enough, Sandra resolutely gave up the opportunity to rework and started running around again for life.
1,000 euros, a prize that is by no means vital, forms the paradoxical core of the whole story. Everyone who is visited by Sandra has more or less their own rhetoric about the prize. Money isn't life-threatening for these people either, but if they accept it, their lives will at least be improved to some extent. In fact, I can't help being a little surprised. After all, in such a highly developed country as France, we foreigners often only see the superficial superiority, but we can't see the other side under this glorious coat: in the financial crisis In the context of the times, France has fallen into economic difficulties. In this case, French capitalists, no matter how big or small, are trying their best to preserve their interests to the greatest extent, so they start to lay off staff. Today, French and Unemployment across Europe has hit a new high in recent decades, and a large number of social problems have emerged from it. The director of this film keenly captured the most critical node of the problem and presented it through such a skit-style story. . As a realistic film, the social situation reflected in this film is very worthy of our thinking and reflection.
Although Sandra is a depressed patient, in essence, she is still a very independent and strong woman, and she has achieved what she wants through hard work. This kind of character setting is in line with the current modern definition of women. A character becomes the core of the film, so it seems that we can also see that this film is actually a feminist film. A detail in the film is also worth pondering, that is, even if the Sandra family is not a superior proletarian family, they have to live in a villa with a monthly rent for the sake of the appearance. Such behavior is unknown. Because of the influence of the local culture in France, it is still their own problems. In short, such a stubborn woman is really dumbfounding on the issue of the house.
Depressed Sandra is constantly confronted with self-difficulties in her negotiation with her co-workers. She thinks that what she has done has embarrassed her and the people around him, and is trapped in infinite self-blame, a paragraph of the film In the film, when Sandra, who was in a low mood, complained to her husband that no one around her supported her, her husband held up her bowed head and said, "I love you." This moment is the most moving moment for me in the film. lens. Throughout the film, her husband is by her side, encouraging her when she's sad, helping her when she's in trouble, and warming her when she's at her weakest. His love for Sandra is what makes me Very moved.
At the end of the film, Sandra finally got the opportunity to return to work after a collision with the co-workers and the foreman, but the manager told her the truth: it turned out that regardless of the result of the vote, he decided to lay off one person. . Sandra, who was informed of the incident, immediately responded, "I can't let another person leave because of myself." So she left the manager's office and started looking for a new job. Under the capitalist society, the interests of the workers are constantly being squeezed and squeezed, and the so-called democratic voting is just a lie. Straight to the point. And the cunning of the manager further reflects the greatness of Sandra. Even though she has spent so much energy to win the opportunity to rework for herself, when this kind of fundamental position is involved, she reflects an independent conscience. The image of a woman, let us be moved by her self-sacrificing quality.
It's a narrator's film, shot in a documentary style, with the shaky footage from start to finish that captures Sandra's life as if it were a documentary, her expressions and movements, as small as Every muscle of the face is clearly seen by us under the camera, not only her, but the people with her always occupy a place in the picture, which proves that the intention of "people" itself occupies in the film. Location. Although what the film wants to express is not just the emotional collision between people, but people are always the carrier of what the whole film is trying to convey. We learned from the exchanges with one by one co-workers. Sandra's co-workers come from different family environments and cultural circles. They all have their own difficulties in life and have different attitudes towards Sandra. Those who rejected her simply rejected her, and some People are more euphemistic, some people are even more violent, and some people directly choose to escape, but her efforts are by no means in vain. After a series of negotiations, those who sympathized with her situation finally agreed. She accepted her request and gave up the 1,000 yuan bonus. Whether it was those who gave up the bonus because of life or supported her because of kindness, we can more or less see the brilliance of humanity in them - no People are too cruel to Sandra because of this bonus. Originally, this kind of story can intensify the contradiction between them in the negotiation process in order to highlight the dramatic conflict, but the director always keeps them in a relatively restrained and calm state, That's where the director's power is. It can be seen that although this film exposes the dark side of society, the director still holds a positive attitude towards human nature itself.
With the continuous change of times and the continuous development of science and technology, the appearance of this world is also changing at an increasingly fast rate, but from ancient times to the present, there is one thing about human society that has never changed, that is The so-called "law of the jungle": survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest, natural selection, not only the law of nature, but also the law of the entire world and the entire human race. It is cruel. In order to survive, there will be no fundamental difference between what animals and humans do, but the difference between humans and animals is that humans have consciousness, which is the so-called human nature, and human nature will make humans face animals. When some of the problems are more complicated, this film is a good example. The workers who voted for her gave up opportunities to improve their lives because of the inherent goodness of human nature. But while they exude their humanity, they harm their own interests, including Sandra's departure for others. Could it be that in such an environment, the best side of human nature can only be hard to bloom when it pays the price of benefits? It's no wonder that there are so many villains in this world, because today's world does not belong to good people, because if you want to gain more benefits, you must harm the interests of more people.
Western capitalist society is a society that completely follows the "law of the jungle". I can't help but ask, why they are so advocating for personal liberation, but why are they trapped in a self-contradictory shackle?
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