The title picture comes from: “Sorry, we missed you.”
Nomination for the 72nd Cannes Palme d’Or
The Essence of Poverty: Why We Can’t Get Out of Poverty, is a recent best-selling book. The author of this book has penetrated into the world of the poor in many countries on five continents-18 countries and regions. From the daily life, education, health, entrepreneurship, assistance, government, and many other aspects of the poor, explore the true roots of poverty.
But many people may not have the time or energy to read the entire book. As it happens, the recent director’s new work “I’m Black” at the Cannes Golden Palm Awards “I’m Black” can be watched. It tells the daily life of the poor. This story can directly and effectively help you to understand the nature of poverty.
The protagonist is the poor man Rich, but his poverty was caused by the 2008 financial crisis. The bank went bankrupt, they lost their house loan, and Ricky lost a decent job. At this point, Richie can only support his family by doing handymanship. He has never received unemployment benefits. He is kind and active, and still works hard in the face of the blows from life.
But people like him, There are tens of thousands in Britain, and they are poor because of the turmoil of fate. And at the practical level, because of the epidemic, our countryThe economy has suffered a lot of damage, and the days of resumption of work are far away. The catering industry, the education industry that is constantly losing money …, the collapse of some small and medium enterprises, and today’s one-way bookstores to save themselves through crowdfunding. Their injuries all mean that there will be countless Rickies who have lost their jobs, or Ricky who is preparing to start a business in order to change the status quo.
Day 1: Poverty Expectations
The story of this film begins with his decision to start a business, rent a car for logistics, and become a courier. In support of his new job, his wife Abby sold their only property: the car. The old loan is outstanding, and another new loan is added. Can they change their fate and live a life of 30,000 last month?
Ricky suffers more than 14 hours of high-intensity work every day, facing the bad of writing the customer address, the customer address does not exist, being issued a ticket, being satirized by the customer, traffic jams, the person receiving the courier cannot find the certificate, etc. Mindfulness, unpleasant little things pile up. Abby, who works as a caregiver, has to take care of six people a day. The intensity of work is more than ten hours. There is no car, and only work can be done by bus and walking.
After two people are exhausted from work, they are completely unable to take care of their children. No companionship, no education. Only the expectation of earning money desperately can be changed, and the time spent with family members is drastically reduced, and there is no communication and understanding between family members. Greater conflicts are also brewing.
Day 2: Work hard to be ordinary
In the early morning, a colleague’s car was damaged, and the boss in his eyes only had interest. He refused to give him even two hours of repair time. Directly forced to exchange routes to Ricky. At this company, mistakes mean obsolescence, just like Steve long ago.
Similarly, no one will care about this time. It is everyone ’s daily life to work hard, for £ 100 a day 
On the child’s side, the sensible sister Lisa forced her brother Seba to go to school, but Seba was still truant of graffiti. Seba likes the art of graffiti, but children of poor people like art is equivalent to nightmares. In order to buy paint, he sold his winter coat, and even entered the police station for stealing paint.
When talking about the future of his college studies, he only knew about the expensive £ 57,000 loan for studying, and working like a friend in a call center, after using Repay the loan for life, drink alcohol and decompress on weekends. Seba made very clear the plight and despair of the poor. As Ricky himself said, “It’s not good enough to do my best.”
But life is like this. You can try to be ordinary in your life, eat, drink, and live in a house. Will more and more people be replaced by machines in the future? If it weren’t for creative work, who would dare to say that he would not be reduced to a living recipient.
On this day, there is an off-line story that is impressive. Saiba’s female classmate is going to run away from home because she was bullied at school and bullied by her mother’s new boyfriend at home.
A story arc, but the side shows the nature of poverty-destiny . Unlike the protagonist of the story, her poverty is doomed to birth. This is in sharp contrast to the main line of the story, the new poor and the destined poor born of social unrest.
I can’t imagine how a girl who runs away from home will live. Child labor or physical or physical?
Day 3: Revelation of the Birth of Jobs
On Saturday, Ricky and her sensible daughter went to work together. Of course, when delivering the courier, there were also good people who saw their daughters go to work together and gave tips. In total, there were three people. Her daughter was curious about the world and asked her father how the information was delivered to the machine. Ricky could only say that it was a computer program.
There is an old saying in China, “Long Sheng Long Feng Sheng Feng, the mouse’s son will punch holes.” Although it is hard to hear, this is the fate of most people. If Jobs’s father taught him to write a program to change the world, then Lisa’s father taught her to send a courier to support her life.
The seemingly mild day was not calm, and Ricky was bitten by a dog. On the side of Abby, in the face of long overtime work, he had to take a bath for an old man who had poop everywhere. When she complained to her boss after being wounded, Kindness Abby still stood by the old man’s point of view and said to her boss, “This old man just needs more company.”
The reality is that Abbey did it for an hour, no overtime pay, and no medical compensation. The old daughter didn’t want to care about her, she just wanted to sell her house. The reality is that everyone is in danger, and who can control who?
A rare family dinner, Abby was forced to take care of the elderly because the elderly could not go to the toilet. But the family had a moment of joy on the way to sending Abby overtime.
Day 4: Mud Buddha Crosses the River
The class was suspended because their son had a fight on campus, and they both worked hard to get to school. Ricky’s car couldn’t drive into the school, and was ultimately fined for online lessons at home.
Contradictions between husband and wife have erupted because of this. The old principle of “the poor and the unshakable husband and wife are sorrowful” is once again confirmed. If “Marriage Story” is romantic, the marriage here is extremely real, every little thing in life has become a deadly fuse. Marriage is not the grave of love, cruel reality is the grave of love. And what about romance in front of realism?
Ricky emphasized that it was the child’s fault, and the son said a word “always”. It can be seen that this is not the first time, but the second time is because of Seba. What does the reproached child congress look like? Dare to guess. On the other hand, the 11-year-old daughter suffered from insomnia and no one cares.
Under these circumstances, Ricky had to take time off. The superior told his colleagues that the situation is more difficult: “One was kicked out by his wife, one sister suffered a stroke, one needed surgery, and one daughter attempted suicide.” The company can’t manage it. The only thing the company can control is the speed of delivery.
The unfair system of the express company and the indifference of the boss reveal no doubt what “join” and “You don’t work for us. You work with us. (You are not working for us, you are working with us ) “, all are just a nice exploitation.
Day 5: Helpless Shouts
The client complained about sending express mail with his daughter, and was arrested in the police station because his son stole a few cans of spray paint. In this way, Ricky did not work for several days, affecting the company’s performance, and was once again abused by his boss and warned by a red card. I also lost a lot of money, and more and more loans.
The next day, he found that the truck was painted with a bastard by his son, and Ricky, who thought that the car keys had been taken away by his son, even beat him. After the son ran away from home, he learned that his sister had taken the key to alleviate the conflict between the brother and the father. The family burst into tears, but there was no solution.
Sixth and Seventh Days: Life and Death Fatigue, Keep Going
Ricky almost got into a traffic accident on the road retrograde due to fatigue driving, and had to rest again. Ricky, who finally came to work, encountered foolishness, was beaten, robbed and even insulted by urine. When he was seriously injured in the hospital, he received a call from his superior and asked Ricky to compensate the lost courier and the broken scanner.
Together with the original loan, the amount of arrears is now rising rapidly. Imagine a monthly salary of 30,000, but already lost tens of thousands of dollars. If it is realism, this is realism. A seven-day interpretation of a long class solidification history is very clear. It is even more evidence that your birth, the rich or poor of your life, depends on luck.
Day Eight: A Society of Cannibals
Ricky, who was hurt, drank a glass of cold milk at six in the morning to prepare to return to the car. Everyone stopped him, but Ricky, who could only see with one eye, chose to drive to the company to work.
Lu Xun once said that society cannibalize people. But the difference is that before eating people naked, now they are hiding behind the mechanism and devouring the bottom.
Who can see clearly?
Director Ken Lodge used this method to tell about the collapse of a family, about the solidified class, a story about poverty, and a helpless life.
Sorry, we missed you. It is the best realist movie of last year. And realism reflects this best age and this worst age. And the more this time, “the more the movie should stand with the people.”