Hongyan Xiuying still remembers a news not long ago:
The Hungarian government will significantly increase the financial subsidies for families with many children,
Women with 4 or more children can be exempted from personal income tax for life, and women under the age of 40 who marry for the first time can apply for a discounted interest loan of 10 million HUF (about 240,000 yuan) ...
There are many people who are always envious of the welfare system and generous treatment of other countries.
For example, in Japan, children's protection, sound medical care, etc.,
In Japan, if a man works in a company for life, he will receive a high subsidy after retirement, but at the same time, the divorce rate of middle-aged and elderly people in Japan is also the highest.
The reason is simple, the man receives a retirement benefit, the wife chooses to divorce and divide the property.
There are questions about human nature, there are questions about marriage, there are questions about life,
But the outbreak time of all problems is a time node attached to the welfare system.
Feelings have long been weak, and even hatred is strong, but most people choose to be patient for many years for the sake of unavoidable interests, waiting for the moment of outbreak.
Perhaps, personal dignity and welfare system are also two ends of contradiction!
This is also the movie that Red Face Xiuying wants to recommend today, "I Am Blake",
This is the work of the most famous leftist director in Europe, "neorealist master" Ken Lodge, screenwriter Paul Rafferty, starring David Johns, Harellie Squiss, etc.,
A story about the life of the lower classes of society under the welfare benefits in Europe.
The film was released in France on May 13, 2016.
The film's biggest honors were the Palme d'Or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival and best British Film at the 70th British Academy Film Awards.
At present, on Douban, it still has a high score of 8.2.
The film tells the story of 59-year-old Daniel Blake (Davey Johns), a carpenter.
For the first time in his life, he needed to apply for social assistance due to heart problems.
Although his doctors forbade him to continue working, he decided to find a job at the risk of being fined.
In the process of repeatedly going to the "job center" to seek employment,
He meets Katie (Harely Squis), a single mother who needs to take care of two children.
In order not to let her children be exiled to children's welfare homes, she had to live in a house 450 kilometers away from her birthplace.
The cumbersome procedures of today's British administrative body are like a net, firmly wrapped around two people,
Daniel and Katie decide to try to help each other.
At the beginning of the film, the male protagonist Blake and the relief assessor have a 3-minute dialogue full of black humor.
The evaluator is like a machine, asking one by one according to the rules and regulations about health assessment questions that sound far-fetched and ridiculous.
Very "clever" proof that Blake is still able to work, and also disqualified Blake from social assistance,
So Black had to start the long road of appeal.
However, Blake has no income and can only apply for employment benefits,
Lake, who has no benefits, will continue to apply for a job, and when he is successful in his job search, he has to push off the job because he needs to appeal and ask for proof that he cannot work.
This, in turn, prevented him from receiving employment benefits.
This is the puzzle-like "rules of the game",
Like the "Twenty-two Rules of The Army" of "If you can prove that you are crazy, then you are not crazy",
Keeping the rope around Blake's neck tighter and tighter, Blake was not willing to be treated like a monkey, resisted, and finally died of a heart attack in the appeal process.
True warriors dare to face the bleak life,
One of the deep themes reflected in this film is about: dignity!
the question of human dignity, in particular the dignity of the so-called poor in a society,
Then we may as well talk about what is called poor, and someone will say:
Does it still need to be said that the poor just don't have money!
But this understanding is too one-sided, and it also reflects the high degree of unity of chinese mass culture today.
Why?
Poverty, poverty and poverty are two concepts, poverty is no money, poverty is depression, embarrassment, anxiety, despair,
Poverty is material, and poverty refers more to spirituality.
A decaying man is called the end of the road, not the end of the road,
Of course, there is also a phenomenon, rich and poor, and the reality today is that the rich are not expensive, poor and unclear,
Therefore, it will cause the rich but not expensive to be obscene, and the poor but not clear to be cheap.
The problem with the basic structure of society is fundamental,
If society wants to keep people from falling into the end of the road, it must keep three bottom lines:
First, the bottom line of material social assistance, second, there must be a minimum of mobility between social classes, and third, maintain the dignity of anyone.
These three bottom lines are intertwined and interrelated,
A person who is financially in trouble, he can maintain a minimum decent life with the help of society, he will feel that he has not been abandoned by society, and he will not have hostility to society.
With a minimum of a decent life and the opportunity to move upwards, we can give hope to people in distress.
Focus on the third article, how to maintain the dignity of anyone,
Because of the dignity of the heart, he will have principles, only those who have the principles of life know self-love, and people who know how to love themselves will not do anything in difficult situations.
When a man is not only poor, but also really poor, he is so poor that he loses his last possession, which is dignity.
Dignity is the last property of the poor!
The lack of public welfare and the rigidity of society will be agreed by everyone that they are related to the system.
The widespread deprivation of individual dignity by society is, to a large extent, the result of the active participation of everyone.
Some people may ask, dignity, do you talk to the poor about usefulness?
It's like playing the piano to a cow, they can't understand it, such people only have money in their eyes!
It may be true, but I'm sure there won't be anyone who doesn't know what dignity is, just like everyone knows saturated hunger, cold and warm.
Any normal person has the ability to perceive whether he is respected or not,
He also has the need to be treated with respect by others, which is a basic emotional need of people.
Saying that it is useless for you to play the piano to the cow, you tell him about dignity, that is because people have become accustomed to the situation of being deprived of dignity, and he is content with this situation.
This deprivation probably began when he was a child, from the time he remembers.
And the story of "I Am Black" takes place in the welfare state of England,
The film focuses on the problems in their society, which belong to the negotiable problems under the operation of a modern social system.
And we belong to the postmodern country here, far from these problems, for the perception of the movie, most of the Chinese people may not be cold,
That kind of realistic writing and black humor are not at the same latitude as us in time and space.
But the preservation of dignity in human nature is reasonable.
Dignity is something that has nothing to do with rich and poor and class.
The lack of this common sense is a big problem among us today.
Many people sincerely believe that:
What dignity do the poor want, you are poor and you want to fart dignity!
The 80-year-old British director at the time: Ken Rocky,
Still adhering to the role of social observer and critic, once again using the camera, fiercely attacking the British government's pension, medical care, social security and other systems.
Under the cold tone, there is the helpless and tired figure of the old man and the single mother.
Such a lifelong cold-eyed critic, at such an age, sharp and still,
Looking back at us, He once had such a real warrior, of course, some people have said that we only have realistic themes here, there is no real realism film,
Because it is impossible for rice seeds planted to grow fruit in this land.
But then again, if one day, our movies are really open,
Well, it is possible that our subject matter for so many years has swept the three major european film festivals for 30 consecutive years.
The first thing is the transformation of the soil, then the growth of the seed, and finally the flowering and fruiting,
Knowing that the present life is terrible, but not seeing that the future will be better than the present, this is really desperate!