He has no income and can only apply for employment assistance. But this requires Black to continue to apply for a job, and when he succeeds in finding a job, he has to turn off the job because he needs to provide proof of "cannot work" requested by the appeal, which in turn leads to the inability to obtain employment benefits. The puzzle-like "rules of the game" are like "If you can prove that you are crazy, then you are not crazy." Playing as a monkey, she fought back and died suddenly due to a heart attack during the appeal process.
In the film, the multiple-choice question played by Black and Katie’s son: "Who kills more people with sharks or coconuts"? The child answered the correct answer: coconut, the little boy is innocent and does not know the reason for the answer. In fact, this is not human fate. Fighting sharks has a certain chance to escape, but the coconut falling from the sky is smashed on the head. Fate cannot be escaped.
When the film’s master announces Lake, there is always a paradox: he is a typical "man", as he wrote in his suicide note, "I am not a lazy person, not a thief, nor a beggar thief... ... I do not bow to the powerful, treat others sincerely, and do my best to extend a helping hand. I am a citizen, with no extravagance and no compromise." In the story, he took the case and helped Katie's family. He has been fighting for his rights in accordance with the rules. Finally, he wrote slogans on the wall of the social security institution to prove the principles he adhered to throughout his life. However, such a person is in reality. Representative of the marginalized people: He has always followed the rules, but he is ignorant of the emerging office equipment, and is exhausted by official forms, applications, and training. Because he had to follow the rules, he had to ask for help from his unruly black neighbors.
In terms of the plot, the film, in addition to Blake’s main line, also set up a sideline section to add a little human care to the critical and ironic atmosphere: Blake accidentally helped a single mother with two children, Katie and Katie. It was also because of the unfavorable rules and regulations that almost missed the security room. Black stepped forward to let others line up behind Katie so that Katie relieved her urgent need. Since then, the two people formed a mutual aid team. Just as the female neighbor Pavani said to Ovie in the movie "A man named Ovie is going to die", "No one can bear everything alone. When you are the loneliest, all you need is the warmest companionship", different Ovi lives in a "cradle-to-grave" Sweden, while Blake lives in the UK where social assistance and welfare are like guessing.
In terms of plot promotion and theme sublimation, the director achieved a shocking goal through the alternate use of details and climax: Katie opened the sauce at the food relief station because of hunger, so as to pave the way for her future aid dating. And when Black discovered the truth about Katie’s aid dating, the former’s heartbreak and grief and the latter’s shame and helplessness formed a strong collision. The last line "I earned 300 pounds today, I can buy fresh fruit for the children". It’s as if he’s in his throat; every time he meets with the security agency assessor in the film, he can see his constant aging from the details on his face, but the bureaucracy on the opposite side is still as cold as a machine like the first time they met. Black is right Katie said, "I can't believe it, these people are deciding the life and death of so many people." Blake finally wrote a line of slogan requesting a complaint with spray paint on the wall of the government security agency! Like "survival or destruction" in "Hamlet"? Black chose to stand "life", and he finally won his life-dignity.
The Best Director Award at the 69th Cannes Film Festival was awarded to the director of the "Graduation Exam", Christian Mungi. The film portrays a father who wants his daughter to "escape" from Romania. Ironically, " The destination of "escape" is precisely the United Kingdom.
Jean-Luc Godard, the founder of French New Wave film, said that "not to make a political film, but to make a film with a political vision". Ken Roach put this sentence into practice through "I am Blake", and in the film's performance techniques, he discarded the wide-open and clear left-wing criticism and adopted the integration of human nature and class. Through a philosophical approach The lines make this scourge of society and the system deeper, and it is more socially shocking in the subtle way.
View more about I, Daniel Blake reviews
