I took a break while being in the TIFF (Thessaloniki International Film Festival) and went to watch this movie because I was really excited. Sure it looked realistic and sad and bitter and it would probably ruin me, but who cares. And yeah, it was kind of heart-breaking and it is the most raw film of the year. It's realism is just beyond compare.
The film is a look at a family struggling to make a living in an England of taxes, generic working enviroments and inhumane job conditions. It is about financial struggle, humanity and the industriliziation of our era and about labour exploitation and how ideas like love and the values of democracy have faded out.
The family members feel like real people and their struggles and problems are so understandable because we also have to face them everyday and everything about this film is so grounded and righteous. It never tries to produce a certain emotion, it is just there and it hits because of its presence, the struggles feel ral and the sotry is so organic and even if it is such a sad story, it never made me feel totally devasted - maybe i should have.
Even its look does not have a cinematic quality,. It really feels like the most true way of documenting reality and everyday struggles between this family. The camera is like a human eye, an observer, it does not want to look stylish or make a movie to show off and that's why this film has a really bold and interesting cinematic trait of portraying things in a way so honest it does not look like cinema but like life itself.
And I still do not get how people manage to live their lives under such an unfair and mechanical way of working. It is like we have become souless and have no further purpose except of serving as workers. There is no space for feeling tideous or taking a step back to think or choose to be ethical instead of practical. Life is like you are running in a labyrinth because you are chased by a beast and if you pause for a second to rest or enjoy the view or have a chat- you're gone. NAd it's sad and bitter and it hurts, but it's true and human and I appreciate this movie a lot.
Great job and please let's start to feel the other people around us and undrstand that some things like family, love,togethereness and the human life is more important than completing a lame delivery. We are not robots- we have souls and we feel pain and sadness and that's why our working enviromntens as well as our family members should be more compassionate and show a level of respect and try to help.
Wake up
As Charlie Chaplin once said in The Great Dictator : " We live in a world that thinks too much and feels too little!"
Think Less. Feel More. That's what we Miss.
The film is a look at a family struggling to make a living in an England of taxes, generic working enviroments and inhumane job conditions. It is about financial struggle, humanity and the industriliziation of our era and about labour exploitation and how ideas like love and the values of democracy have faded out.
The family members feel like real people and their struggles and problems are so understandable because we also have to face them everyday and everything about this film is so grounded and righteous. It never tries to produce a certain emotion, it is just there and it hits because of its presence, the struggles feel ral and the sotry is so organic and even if it is such a sad story, it never made me feel totally devasted - maybe i should have.
Even its look does not have a cinematic quality,. It really feels like the most true way of documenting reality and everyday struggles between this family. The camera is like a human eye, an observer, it does not want to look stylish or make a movie to show off and that's why this film has a really bold and interesting cinematic trait of portraying things in a way so honest it does not look like cinema but like life itself.
And I still do not get how people manage to live their lives under such an unfair and mechanical way of working. It is like we have become souless and have no further purpose except of serving as workers. There is no space for feeling tideous or taking a step back to think or choose to be ethical instead of practical. Life is like you are running in a labyrinth because you are chased by a beast and if you pause for a second to rest or enjoy the view or have a chat- you're gone. NAd it's sad and bitter and it hurts, but it's true and human and I appreciate this movie a lot.
Great job and please let's start to feel the other people around us and undrstand that some things like family, love,togethereness and the human life is more important than completing a lame delivery. We are not robots- we have souls and we feel pain and sadness and that's why our working enviromntens as well as our family members should be more compassionate and show a level of respect and try to help.
Wake up
As Charlie Chaplin once said in The Great Dictator : " We live in a world that thinks too much and feels too little!"
Think Less. Feel More. That's what we Miss.