"Sorry, We Missed You" is a British family drama film released in 2019, directed by Ken Roach, starring Christine, Debbie Honeywood, Restone, and Katie Prolockt. The story is told After the impact of the financial tsunami, Ricky, who had been unemployed for a long time, finally found a job as a logistics driver, but was told that the job was not only self-employed, but also had to bring his own truck to deliver the goods at a specific time. Under economic pressure, they were not allowed to Don’t sell your wife’s scooter for exchange. Ricky and Abby are both overwhelmed by their work, and they have no time to accompany each other and their adolescent children. The deteriorating family relationship also puts them facing major tests. The most important thing for
is to pay attention to and change
, who has been shortlisted for many times at the Cannes Film Festival and is known as the British film conscience. His works often have a strong social realism. Whether it is "The Wind Blowing Wheat Wave" or the Irish Civil War A pair of brothers reflect the impact of the environment on the individual, "An Angel" uses a story of a group of marginalized people struggling to present the problem of youth unemployment in the UK, or "I Am Black" criticizes it through a carpenter suffering from heart disease The rigidity of the social welfare system and bureaucratic corruption, these works all lock the plot in the low-level society or working class small people, and use the description of the real society in the film to speak for them, and this time "Sorry, we missed you" also No exception.
The gap between the new and the old
I think Ken Roach set the story stage of "Sorry, We Missed You" in Newcastle in the north of England. It is not without reason. This past is famous for shipbuilding and steel industry. In recent years In cities and towns that are facing industrial transformation, unlike the rapid pace of economically developed and prosperous metropolises such as London and Manchester, most people still maintain a relatively traditional and conservative, hard-working work style, although their day seems unremarkable. However, it retains the most intimate human touch, and enjoys the simplest beauty between family and people with a down-to-earth and optimistic life attitude. However, due to the heavy burden of sudden economic pressure, these habits are simple. The people are gradually crushed.
The note posted by the courier when the customer is not at home and unable to deliver the package smoothly is sorry, we missed you "Sorry We Missed You" as the movie title, you can see that "Sorry We Missed You" is again Ken Roach once showed his works of caring for labor. After winning the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 with "I Am Blake", he once again asked Paul Lafferty, his long-time screenwriter, to write the script. From a realistic narrative perspective, it reflects the rise of modern society with the rise of digital platforms. Under the new work pattern of the so-called zero-hour economy, these freelancers may encounter various problems.
The heaviest realistic pressure
"Sorry, we missed you" combined with the financial turmoil of 2008, and the era when electronic digital and online shopping gradually become popular, the emergence of new economic models is like letting most of the labor work in the past. Because the financial turmoil was implicated in carrying huge debts, but his father, Ricky, who had to support his family with his wife, caught a life-saving straw and tried to use it to reverse the sluggish work in the past. However, after putting the whole family’s assets into it, I did not expect that because of the rapid technological evolution, the lack of corresponding legal protection, and the unequal relationship between the enterprise and the labor, the only thing facing him is that he must face the risks on his own and cannot get what he deserves. All kinds of labor rights and interests are squeezed by employers.
There is no doubt that it is because of the extremely successful character creation that gives the audience a clear sense of the warmth radiated from the lens, which makes "Sorry, We Missed You" a movie that is extremely heartbreaking. The whole film revolves around the family, using the usual interaction process of this family of four to bring out the relationship between the characters and strengthen the emotional connection between the family members, so as to compare with the current social situation at the time, so that Rich and powerful After the responsible father is under tremendous work pressure, he presents the bloody reality that even if workers work hard and even sacrifice their families for work, they will eventually become poorer and poorer.
The dilemma of little people
Director Ken Roach is very good at portraying the helpless and true reactions and feelings of the characters in the film when they are in trouble, maintaining the overall tone of his works, which are mostly full of pain and pain, based on his father Rui Qi goes out early and returns late every day, travels back and forth to deliver goods, and the betrayal of his adolescent sonReverse behavior, through family conflicts aggravated by incorrect communication between family members, brings out the little person who is always chased by time, but facing the unknown tomorrow, there is not much time for him to think, only one step is lost and nothing help.
Maybe in the film "Sorry, We Missed You" there are many warm moments of family caring for each other, and there are also joys in the hardships of busy work, but the whole film focuses on the delicate emotional description of the characters, and cuts in from the affection that people can most empathize. , It also highlights the mistakes they made on impulse, and the cruel and ruthless exploitation in real society. The seemingly unreasonable regulations can only be swallowed hard. I hope that my son will read the book and be impatient. The candle burns at both ends, and there is no way to take care of both. Finally, the pressure gradually piled up and crushed the family like a snowball. It is the saddest fact of "Sorry, We Missed You", but there is no way to solve it personally.
Problems that may be faced by laborers
In the end, the zero-hour economy is only the beginning and the starting point. Ken Roach finally took all people’s dissatisfaction with work, but could not eliminate and vent their aspirations into "Sorry, we missed you". In the movie, whether it is the low-level workers who are oppressed but forced to tolerate due to economic factors, despite the bruises and bruises, they drag their exhausted body to work, or the executives only pursue business figures and do not care about the vicious circle caused by labor rights. The film tells It is not just Newcastle, but the problems that people all over the world may have because they have to take care of their own work. The
film presents to the truth the current situation of profit-oriented companies sacrificing the basic rights and interests of the bottom laborers in order to reduce costs and maximize profits under the market economy of the capital society. More cruelly, "Sorry, we missed you" It also takes the family as the main core. When the society cannot fully implement labor-related laws and regulations, and labor must compete with each other in order to live, the original warm love and care between family members becomes a burden, so that parents must support the family. The responsibility of giving children a better life has become an accomplice in the further deterioration of the social working environment.
The saddest facts
I really hate the feeling of depression in the whole film "Sorry, We Missed You". I am almost choked by fear of accidents in the character many times, even if there is a daughter in the family who always sympathizes with my parents Intimate, his rebellious son still cares about the warmth of his family, but he is completely covered up by the contradictions, helplessness and sadness in the film. The sunlight that breaks through the thick clouds seems to be just a goal set by this society to allow us to continue to work hard, just like the zero-hour economy under the sign of freedom and flexibility is mostly just a lie that more labor is exchanged for less wages. On the surface, it seems that there is a chance to bring the light back to the sky, but in fact the so-called turning over from the bottom of the valley is only the beginning of falling into another abyss, and people can't help but feel completely disappointed in this society.
ending
I would not think that the characters are particularly unlucky, but will regard them as the epitome of the worse society at the bottom of the society. Many difficulties ensue one after another and form a chain effect. "Sorry, we missed you" director Ken Roach, based on this inevitability that always happens in the free market, arouses our attention and sympathy through the encounter of the characters in the film, and arouses the audience's reflection on real life. At the end of the movie, his family was blocking the white truck, but his father Ricky still insisted on going to work with injuries. He couldn’t help thinking of the news that the food delivery man was speeding and died in a car accident in order to arrive within the specified time. What we can do at this time is only Be more concerned and considerate, and actively support the formulation of relevant laws and regulations, so as to provide more complete protection of labor rights, but also to consider whether the existing economic model can be revised. I think this is "Sorry, we missed you". The core idea conveyed.
