To some extent, this film is about lobbying, rights, democracy, and voting, but it has nothing to do with politics. It only interprets the story of a woman who desperately lobbys her colleagues in order not to be fired, but this is by no means all, it goes beyond In the form of democracy and voting, it has reached the torture of human dignity and morality. This kind of torture is not flogging, but flicking lightly, but it also leaves scars, even, on the contrary, this kind of feeling is much stronger than flogging, because this situation is more realistic.
The story is simple. Sandra just got out of the shadow of depression and was about to return to work in the factory, only to learn that because of the economic downturn, the boss let the other 16 employees vote, or chose Sandra to stay, or choose to fire her to save money. The money dropped gives each person a bonus of one thousand euros. Sandra has two children. With her husband's encouragement, she began lobbying her colleagues one by one to let them give up their bonuses and choose to have a job. However, colleagues also have their own difficulties. Some need to pay school fees for their children, and some urgently need the money to repair their houses. They began a self-torture and struggle under the bonus and Sandra's plea.
Sundara's lobbying one by one is a canvassing process. To some extent, she is fighting for her right to work, but she is also doing moral kidnapping. She must sell suffering and use the compassion of others in exchange for gain. She used a face-to-face approach to force people to express their attitudes. This setting is very meaningful, and it eliminates all the possibility of avoidance and dodge. During her two days and one night of lobbying, those colleagues acted as God, and they were deciding the fate of a woman. From this perspective, "Two Days and One Night" is the "live stream" version of "Twelve Angry Men". In the face of this woman, except for a few hard-hearted young people, most of the other colleagues hesitated. Between real interests and humanitarianism, it is difficult for people to make judgments face-to-face. What’s interesting is that these low-level workers are very honest. Even if they have to face embarrassment, they are unwilling to choose to lie. They still believe in the fairness of voting. This lobbying process is a process in which dignity is gradually shattered, but it is also a process in which a person recognizes himself and regains confidence.
The heroine of "Two Days and One Night" is Marion Cotillard who has starred in "Pretty Things", "Two Little No Guess" and "Rust and Bone". This time she performed a real female character struggling with life with dark circles and clothes that will never be replaced. The focus on this role has been a long-standing interest of the Darnet brothers. In 1999, they used "Rosetta", which focused on women at the bottom, to get the heroine Emily De Quinn to win the Cannes film queen, and then let the film aspire to Palme d'Or. The Darnet brothers do not take narratives of suffering and the bottomless as pleasure, neither the arrogance of deliberate onlookers nor the intervention of deliberate criticism. "Zero" is their attitude. The director is only responsible for presenting the lives and inner world of this group of people. But like most excellent films of this kind, they are full of compassion in many details. During the lobbying process, with the pain of losing dignity, Sandra and her husband occasionally ate ice cream, occasionally hummed to music in the car, and the little smiles also had a warm tone.
After retreating, regrouping, and attempted suicide, Sandra spent two grey days and one night. In the end, the choice of bonus and the choice of leaving her colleagues accounted for half. In order to prevent negative emotions from the employees, the boss chose to let her stay and also give out bonuses, but he would fire an employee after a while. This was a powerful reversal, the damage was transferred, and Sandra became God at this time. She decides the fate of the other person. But this time, she chose to leave to find a new job. This kind of rebirth after reaching a dead end is the end of the light in the true sense.
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