Sorry we missed you, the first time I saw the movie name and poster I thought it was about family relationships.
The director is Ken Lodge, who is now in his eighties, ken Rocky from the working class, from the film half a century, he has been shortlisted in the main competition unit 14 times, and won two Palme d'Ors.
Undoubtedly a veteran figure in the film industry, it is rare that he has focused the lens on the ordinary working class for decades, speaking out in the film for the various dilemmas faced by the toiling masses, and this film is undoubtedly the same.
The story takes place in the port city of Newcastle in the north-east of England.
The protagonist Ricky's family from Manchester lives here, because of the 18-year subprime mortgage crisis, Ricky, who already had a loan and a house, has no job and the house is gone.
The family now has to rent a house, and life is extremely difficult.
In the past ten years, Ricky has changed a lot of jobs, the beginning is that Ricky found the current job of delivering couriers, but this job is not a normal labor employment relationship as we understand it, but in the name of "self-employment", similar to the form of joining.
So you need to buy your own car and bear all the costs of your work, the company just gives you express delivery and directions.
And Ricky's wife, Abby, is also a home nurse job similar to a casual job, and there is not much protection.
According to Ricky's plan, after two years of hard work, he can buy a house and start a new life, but the current dilemma is that the family does not even have the money to buy a car.
Abby had to sell her private car for work to pay the down payment on the van.
Since then, no matter how far the customer lives in Abby, he will have to take a bus to and from the bus, not only tired but also difficult to arrive at the customer's home on time.
Ricky started working, but the job was 14 hours a day, 6 days a week, and countless road and customer situations drained Ricky's energy and time.
The same is true of his wife Abby's job, the absence of a car greatly increases commuting time, and the face of customers who cannot take care of themselves Abby has paid far more than what she has received, and even her own private time will be disturbed.
The first half of the film shows the routine and trivial and powerless daily life of everyone in the family, the father and mother who are busy with work, the rebellious eldest son and the sensible little daughter, and what a typical family of four.
However, this kind of life under the tense emotions of everyone's exhaustion will definitely have an explosive point.
The eldest son of the family, Saiba, was rebellious, and because of the negligence of his family, he skipped school unscrupulously.
Eleven-year-old sister Lisa is well-behaved and sensible, but because of the family's small relationship, she has insomnia.
Gentle Abby first had an emotional breakdown at the station and broke out on the phone.
Subsequently, the eldest son, Seba, was called a parent by the school for skipping school, and Ricky's work did not allow for leave.
The school was closed for self-study at home, but two days later, Saiba was caught by the police for stealing things, and Ricky had no choice but to take leave to deal with it.
However, the world is not love can be, the pressure from the outside world is real, Ricky is going to lose money for a day off, encountering robbery on the road, waiting for X-rays in the hospital, but receiving a call from his boss to compensate the company for compensation for goods.
And all the injuries you suffer are at your own risk.
This is capital oppression, not that 996 does not have any guarantees, because you are a self-employed employee, the company is not responsible for any accidents of yours, just needs you to work to work!
So, Abby dreamed at night that she and her husband fell into the mire and wondered:
Why is it that the harder you try, the deeper it is like falling deeper in the abyss?
Faced with the brutal exploitation of individuals by the entire capital system, Ricky was powerless.
So even Ricky, who was injured, continued to drive to work the next day, not listening to the advice of his family.
He couldn't stop, just stop not only without money but also to compensate the company's money, making things worse for this not-so-wealthy family.
That's what happens at the end of the film.
Naïve children used to think that if they stole the keys, their father would not be able to go to work, and if he did not go to work, his life would return to normal.
But no, if you don't go to work, the whole family will only be more miserable.
In the modern exploitative society, you can't tolerate the slightest breathing time, big data monitoring, you leave the truck for a while the machine will "drip" sound, Ricky just went to work when the friend gave him a plastic bottle said there is no time to go to the toilet, Ricky also laughed at him, did not expect that in the end really can only rely on plastic bottles to solve.
Is this movie sensational?
In the film, there are also such warm moments when the daughter accompanies her father to deliver the courier, and there are also happy times when the whole family eats takeaway together.
But happiness is always short-lived, and day after day of powerlessness and hopelessness are the norm.
Reality may be even harsher than the movie, which is that this cruelty is not revealed in an hour or two, but in the seemingly ordinary days day after day, exhausting energy.
There is in the world only one a heroism, have approved the truth, xx, xx remains love is here or life?
There is only one true heroism in the world, and that is to love life after seeing the truth of life.
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