This is a film released on May 13, 2016.
Its director, Ken Rocky, once said, "I don't make movies that people want to see, I want to make movies that people need to see." ”
At the 70th British Academy Film Awards, "I Am Black" won the best British film and won the palme d'Or, the highest award in Cannes, with a Douban score of 8.2.
The two protagonists of the story, forced by life to become nothing, support each other in order to survive and look for hope.
The male protagonist, Daniel Blake, is an experienced carpenter who is found to have a heart condition and has to stop working for social welfare.
However, the job center always can't get through the phone, the application that must be booked by computer, and the auditor who has never appeared makes Blake's application information as useless as waste paper.
In desperation, he had to apply for unemployment benefits instead, but only if he had to prove to the job center that he really had an effort to find a job. So Blake applied for a job, but he couldn't go to work because he couldn't work for physical reasons, and he applied for a resume just for a relief payment.
The film's heroine, Katie, has no job, and in order to keep her two children from being exiled to a children's welfare home, she has to live in a house 450 kilometers away from her birthplace.
In the end, she sells herself to earn money to support her family, and Blake, who went to stop her, hugged and cried with her.
The film breaks down people's prejudices against those who receive relief money, and bluntly portrays the struggles of people at the bottom of society in life.