The feeling after watching this movie
–Sorry We Missed You……
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★Synopsis
"Sorry
We Missed You" is a British family drama movie released in 2019, directed
by Ken Loach, starring Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, and Katie
Proctor. The story was told about after the impact of the finance tsunami,
long-unemployed Ricky finally found a job as a logistics driver, but was told
that the work was not only self-employed, but also had to bring its own truck
to deliver the goods at a specific time.
Under economic pressure, they had to
sell their wife’s courtesy car in exchange. And Ricky and Abbie are
struggling with their work and have no time to accompany each other and their
adolescent children. The deteriorating family relationship also exposes them to
major challenges.
★The most
important is value and change
The
director Ken Loach, who has been shortlisted for the Festival de Cannes many
times and is known as "British movie conscience", often has a strong
"social realism" in his works, whether it is “The Wind That Shakes
the Barley”, tells the brothers reflect the impact of the environment on
individuals, or “The Angel’s Share” uses a group of society marginalized people
to struggle to present the problem of youth unemployment in the UK, or "I,
Daniel Blake" criticizes the rigidity of the social welfare system and
bureaucratic corruption through a carpenter with heart disease.
These works
lock the plot to the little people in the bottom society or the working class,
and speak for them with the description of the real society, and this time
"Sorry We Missed You" is no exception.
I
think Ken Loach set the story stage of "Sorry We Missed You" in
Newcastle in the north of Britain is not without reason.
This town which was
famous for the shipbuilding and steel industry in the past, faces industrial
transformation in recent years. Unlike the rapid pace of economically developed
and prosperous metropolises such as Manchester or London. Most people still
maintain a relatively traditional conservative and hard-working style.
Although
their days seem bland, they retain the closest ones, humanity, with a
down-to-earth optimistic life attitude, enjoying the simplest goodness between
family and people. However, because of the heavy burden caused by sudden
economic pressure, these simple people are gradually crushed.
With
the deliver encountering a customer who is not at home and unable to
successfully receive, the note attached to the parcel, "Sorry We Missed
You" as the movie title. We can see that this movie is another Ken Loach
showed his work on labor care.
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★The heavy pressure in reality
This
movie combined with the financial turmoil of 2008 and the era when electronic
digital and online shopping have gradually become popular. The labor work because
of the financial turmoil bears a huge burden debt.
The father Ricky, who had to
support his family caught a life-saving straw and tried to use it to reverse
the slump situation. However, after betting on the assets of the whole family,
it didn’t expect that because of the rapid evolution of technology and the lack
of corresponding legal protections, the unequal relationship between the
enterprise and the labor, the only thing that eventually greeted him was that
he had to face the risks by himself and not get what he deserved about labor
rights, etc.
There
is no doubt that because of the extremely successful character shaping and
giving the audience a clear sense of the warmth emanating from the camera, this
movie became a very heartbreaking movie. The whole movie is centered on the
family.
This family of four uses the usual interaction process to bring out the
role relationship and strengthen the emotional connection between the family
members. So as to compare with the current social situation at the time, even
if the laborers worked hard and even sacrificed their families for work, they
eventually became more and more poor.
★The dilemma
of the little figures
Ken
Loach is very good at portraying the kind of helpless and real reaction and
voice of the characters in the dilemma. "Sorry We Missed You"
maintains the overall tone of most of his works full of pain.
Ricky's hard work
of returning home late, and the rebellious behavior of his adolescent son,
through the conflicts aggravated by the wrong communication methods between the
family members, bring out the little figures will always be chased by time, but
facing the unknown tomorrow they don't have much time to think about, they can
only go one step at a time and be at loss and helpless.
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★The
problem the laborers face
The
movie presents the current situation that the profit-oriented enterprises under
the market economy of the capital society in order to reduce costs and maximize
profit, thus sacrificing the basic rights and interests of the bottom laborers.
What ’s crueler is that this movie set family as the main core when the society
can't fully implement the labor-related laws and regulations, and laborers must
compete with each other in order to live, the original warm love and care
between family members becomes a burden.
So that parents in order to support
their families and give their children a better life, this situation has become
an accomplice to the further deterioration of the social working environment.
★The saddest fact
I
hate the feeling of depression in the whole movie. The fear of accidents over
the character almost pressured me to suffocate.
Even if there is a daughter in
the family who always considers the intimateness of the parents, the son's
rebellion still cares about the family. but all covered by the contradictions,
helplessness and sadness in the movie.
The sun that breaks through the thick
clouds in the distance seems to be just a goal set by this society so that we
can continue to work hard, just like the zero-hour economy under the sign of
"free" and "flexible" may seem to have a chance to
reappear, but it is just the beginning of falling into another abyss, and it
can't help but feel completely disappointed in this society.
★Conclusion
On
the whole, I don't think that the encounters of the characters are because they
are particularly embarrassed. On the contrary, I will regard this incident as a
microcosm of the bottom society. It is a situation caused by many difficulties
and a chain effect. "Sorry, We Missed you" is based on this
inevitable that it would always happen in the free market.
Through the
encounter of the characters in the movie aroused our attention and sympathy,
and stimulated the audience's reflection on real life. At this time, we can do
more than just keeping concerned and considerate, and actively supporting the
formulation of relevant laws and regulations, in order to get more complete
protection of labor rights, but also to think about ways to modify the existing
economic model. I think this is what “Sorry We Missed You” wants to show.
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