Sorry We Missed You reviewed by Mark Kermode
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- Опубликовано: 31 окт 2019
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Mark Kermode reviews Sorry We Missed You. A family struggle to keep afloat in Britain’s gig economy.
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The life of an Amazon delivery driver is actually much harder that this film portrays, I completed two months delivering up to 230 parcels a day and it was more like a recurring nightmare, ten hour shifts that actually lasted 12 hours, renting vans each day that were in disrepair and dangerous to drive, unrealistic deadlines, constant pressure, hard work rewarded with more hard work. My health was the first thing to go as there is little time to even eat food, tickets from traffic wardens which meant that you could work a whole day and make less than you started with, managers that didn't care about you in the slightest, depots sending you out with the wrong packages meaning that you would have to return to the depot making your day last thirteen hours, no time for family or being with your loved ones. My advise is NEVER EVER consider becoming an Amazon driver!
I had a similar experience as a vending machine operator.
I got paid for 6 hours salary but had to work at least 10-12 per day because my route was the entire of the county and I didn’t get paid travel time.
I had 10 mins to restock but so often they were unclean or blocked and so I had to take it apart and clean it which took 40-60mins.
I had about 30-40 machines
As in your experience the vans were in disrepair and the boxes of chocolates and crisps and cans were crashing all around the back because they weren’t properly shelved out.
It was awful and I lasted just a month.
I’m really sorry to hear this. That sounds AWFUL. I always think about those delivery drivers’ lives every time I see them going house by house delivering their packages. I think about them when they deliver my package to me. I see them under a completely different light.
I now work for Amazon Flex and as the name suggests it's more flexible with your hours and everything
I hope it works out for you but don't let them get the best of you@@dongmingzhu666
A brutally honest portrayal of a helpless family in uk today strengthened by the choice of non actors in the lead roles.
2 years of cpvid now inflation and climate change measures raisi g cost of food. More or less familys in this situation.
I can't watch these films, I'm too busy experiencing them in real life!
I cried the whole time While watching
I'm not interested in kermodes review but i have just seen the film. I think many people working in stressful jobs can relate to the pressures faced by the lead charachter of the film. Capitalism has reduced families to rubble, workers left with practically no choice other than offer their services to these merciless companies in order to survive.
Now inflation and BS artificial raising food prices cause climate change.
It is not capitalism that is the issue, but the wicked freemasons in power who are deliberately trying to collapse the economic system as a part of their satanic NWO plans. They wont succeed, but people need to be aware of the agenda regardless and have all these demons rounded up and jailed!
I would've had chance to see this film if I wasn't busy living the life it depicts.
Hope you’re doing well friend 👍
the leads in this movie are so so well done and the sad loss of dignity in work is so real, Truly the movie of the year from UK
Good or bad movie I'm just glad that ginger man is the main character in movie. You don't see that much
and he's ginger down below me boy...he's ginger down belooooww!
lol
Harry Enfield: "Nobody likes a ginger baby!"
RE Kermode's criticism, this film was not meant to entertain nor to be a perfect drama-documentary...it is so raw. This piece, 'a year in the life of..' concentrated into 2 hours, is meant to shock us all into realising the devastating effects of austerity on ordinary people's lives. Thousands (ca 130,000) of people have died because of Tory austerity, and bring the level of this awfulness home, it is a deeply uncomfortable film to watch, heartbreaking. I wanted to leave the cinema, had to push myself to stay. These are the human emotions that we should be feeling to bring it home to us what is happening in our society. We should be outraged.
He doesn't say it was meant to entertain or was a documentary?
@@tynebar But he does say it lacked drama, and I've no idea what film he watched. My heart was in my throat the entire film. Not only was it relentlessly intense and terrifying but heartbreaking and enthralling.
After watching this it made me way more considerate to my Amazon delivery driver about making sure I'm home for the parcel, answer the door quick and always take parcels for neighbours!
You’ll never get a genuine review of Loach’s work on this show because of BBC impartiality rules, even if Kermode’a personal politics aren’t a million miles away, which I suspect they aren’t. I remember the I, Daniel Blake review being similarly hands-off, as well as the Arrival review being very, very delicately framed relative to world events that week.
All you need to know is that this might as well be a documentary and if you’re reading this from the UK then you have the chance to change what it shows on you on December 12th.
fifthof and just worsen this situation? Give the Tories free reign without any EU investment in the North East?
fifthof firstly, cite why it’s not. Secondly, Labour isn’t a socialist party, nowhere near. Thirdly why not vote for the Manifesto and policies? At least Labour actually have policies, and they could still give you Brexit (without propping up a Tory government)
fifthof I’ve read a few of Orwell’s books - they’re a critique of authoritarianism not socialism. You do realise he was a socialist who went over to Spain to fight fascists right?
fifthof “Orwell states plainly that he himself is in favour of socialism, but feels it necessary to point out reasons why many people who would benefit from socialism, and should logically support it, are in practice likely to be strong opponents.”
fifthof wiki is great. Alas my reading on Orwell is limited to 1984 and Animal Farm, both critiques of authoritarianism. Doesn’t change the fact that Orwell was a socialist
...just watched, with tears...
...thank u so much for making this movie...
...XXXXX...
' a bleak missive from the edge of something' says Kermode..no idea what that meaningless sentence means. I found it to be better than Daniel Blake for thematic reasons..very raw, very real, so full of humanity, and stronger characterization than that aforementioned movie
Really? I thought that Daniel Blake was much more human and well writen than this. It had an anger and spite to it kind of screaming like: "Look at this! Look at what they are doing to them!" This one felt like a whisper that was too afraid to actually be heard.
Dan G (a) It isn’t a sentence; (b) if it really were meaningless, it would be rather strange to say that you don’t know what it means.
Excellent movie
Like watching my life story
Seen this 3 times and it gets better everytime
Thanks ken another real film. Tell it st up
Must see movie.
I'm sure it's fantastic but too much like real life. Fed up with the world of crap agencies and no guarantee of work and want an escape from it.
go through the front door. Most companies are desperate for staff right now. When you get one, form a guild/ group with other staff (not union as they are crap)
Having never seen the daniel blaike film, I had no clue what I was in for. One of us absolutely hated this movie but I really liked it, for the gritty authenticity. There are characters we can identify with and they feel very real. I'm not sure about the ending because whether we are watching or reading Art, we need rewards for the risks and battering we endure along with the characters. Without much in the way of tangible rewards, this film comes off as a 4 out of 5 rather than a full fledged 5 Star masterpiece. More careful guidance with this thing towards the latter stages could've easily set up a fantastic climax whereby each character finally realizes their plight and makes wise decisions to spend more time together as a family, and get OUT of situations they cannot control.
I disagree about the end.
They are in a poverty trap so they can’t spend more time together as a family without losing their home and by extension their children’s future.
They can’t control it so therefore they can’t get out of it.
This is the underbelly of capitalism.
The right choices and everything will turn out fine are sometimes not a option for people on the knife edge. Without this dire realisation the film would not be as memorable as it was.
So many people live this type of life every day so the fact that it ended the way that it did was fitting.
This productions charm is that it is based on the real life life plight of the working poor and not a choreographed movie script where everything concludes in a satisfying way.
It shows that in many ways the working poor are worse off than the ones on welfare (at least in the uk).
@@DipsyMum29 You observations are very good, very astute. You're right. It is more accurate. I just like hollywood endings. I didnt like the ending of Terminator 2, but it made the film even better.
@@silvercharm I do see your point as well. I do love happy ending and shows of perseverance.
This ended did leave me with a sense of harrowing despair and sadness.
It was only after I sat down and thought about it that I realised that was the point.
It left you with the same helpless feeling that these families feel.
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I have lived a very similar life. But was not lucky enough to get married or have kids
This review really mirrored my thoughts on the film. It's an important story to tell but Loach did over-engineer it, I think, making it not quite as hard hitting dramatically as he's capable of. Also, I know that he likes using non-professional actors for added realism but some of the performances did seem a bit wooden rather than naturalistic - the son, in particular, and, at times, the evil boss. On the other hand, I'm a sucker for lovely old dears and I just wanted to give Abby's 'clients' a big hug :-)
mch mch There’s more to Maloney than we give him credit for. He’s not an ‘evil’ boss, more an inflexible boss sticking to ‘ways’ that have served successful bosses well. That is to say, create a siege mentality with everyone in the right place doing the right things, never show an inch of weakness in your environment otherwise it will weaken the image of authority, and don’t oblige to any worker’s specific needs at the expense of other workers. Because if those other workers see that this worker has gotten his or her way they will demand similar treatment. Maloney is therefore not a caricature but a tragic reflection of a culture, the succeed-at-all-costs-and-never-mind-anything-or-anyone-else mentality. The film argues that he ought to be more open minded but instead all he can do is focus on how, using whatever workers he has available, attain his next target.
ditto.
6:06 "...whereas "I, Daniel Blake" grabbed and thrilled me as a piece of drama, this felt much more like a very, very bleak missive from the edge of something."
I guess they should've called it "I, Daniel Bleak."🥁
[crickets]
Is this thing on?
Where or how can I watch this?
Soap2day
I'm always astounded that people need to see Ken Loach films to understand real life ? if you're surprised by this you must walk around with your eyes closed.
There’s an element of not being surprised but still needing to be exposed to exactly what’s going on
Bang on. Some people in this country still cant relate. Shocking.
I think that's why Loach makes them. A lot of people exist in these insulated little bubbles and they've no idea of the grinding misery some families endure. Working all the hours God sends while being told you're useless and lazy, and it's your fault you can't get ahead, only to end up going backwards anyway. It's brutal.
Or just not want to partake in society's bullshit
I think he liked it..?
This film theme real apply on Today life
I relate to this I was a multi drop courier for 16 years for FedEx, Yodel, UKmail once they told us to leave and come back with our own van the occupation became horrendous health and safety doesn't exist and is a very hard occupation to get out of once your in it. But as a woman courier in a male dominated industry I actually disagree with alot of feminists because the male employees were a great if they saw you do what they do they had respect for you it was actually the women that seemed to have the problem. And dogs... Yes I've enough scars from them an all
What about the targeted attacks from thieves? My friend said he felt shocked by that but I definitely feel that could have easily been a situation.
@@Omaru1982 yes I was followed in my van once and at traffic lights a guy jumped out a car and tried to open the back door to take a parcel, I know plenty of couriers that were attacked for their van keys. I can only imagine its got worse.
@@keliusher-holmes2165 Sadly technology does make things easier for criminals these days, If we're able to see that our parcel is several stops away, its probable that others have access to see the same kind of information. Film did make me appreciate the middleman journey from me pressing 'pay' to the item being received.
I got out of it by punching the operations manager a few times in the face. So that scene in the movie made me laugh.
@@jrobs1133 🤣 good on you seen a few of those moments 🤣
I’m still not quite sure whether he thought it was a good film or not!
Parasite review please
I think Kermode is missing the point of the film. Its not supposed to be entertainment.
@@npe9483 sure if you're devoid of all empathy. Otherwise, the film is emotionally devastating.
@@joemckeown2763 you got a reference for your definition of "film"? Or have you just made that up?
@@joemckeown2763 that's not a reference
It's a sad indictment on modern Britain that living and working conditions have been reduced to this. This country has been in 'cross-party managed decline' for the last few decades and it's going to get worse.
Go Corbyn
I liked I Daniel Blake much more. There was anger to it, there was drama, a conflict to be had. Here? The first half is basically a bunch of scenes that go: "Poverty is bad" and do sometimes literally nothing to the story. Its a picture of a family that just kind of stays still for the first hour. In the last 30 minutes it does pick up a lot of steam and theres actually a story that is told with like conflict and drama. If only the whole movie was like that and didnt insist on doing whatever the first hour of this movies was. Still a pretty good movie.
this and i daniel blake are the most important film you’ll ever see
Did not understand the ending? Was he going of to kill him self?
He was going to work because he had no choice.
@@RS-mu9cw thanks RS that would be more realistic than my over dramatic ending.
very hollow review
so...its not a comedy then ?
'Sorry We Missed You' is about the enslavement of workers, the incredible stress that package delivery drivers experience, and the lack of empathy from bosses who don't admit they are bosses, pretend their employees are self employed. If you are interested in finding out what they go through, this will show you, but it does not have a happy ending. I would not pay for this movie, but if I was interested in finding out about the stresses, I would watch it for free. It's more of a documentary than a movie. I watched it on fbox.to, where you can watch all kinds of modern movies, some really fantastic!
It's not bad a movie but it's just a little bit too predictable and not enough drama
Poverty is bad, well it’s not good is it.
People go out and pay over the odds for cars, houses, phones and get it on tick.
Really people are there own worst enemies by actually paying for a house over 40 years, Contract hiring cars and spending £50 - £80 a month for a phone, all this really tells you is that you're being ripped off and you're happy to be ripped off because you are prepared to commit to it for the rest of your life.
2 depressing
It’s like he got so caught up in social commentary he forgot he was supposed to be making a piece of entertainment.
You're not familiar with his work, are you?
...He was never supposed to make a piece of entertainment. This is a bleeding wound of a movie that is meant to *hurt* and it does. Loach knows how to make entertainment - take a look at The Angels' Share or Black Jack - but this is misery porn. Damn good misery porn.
I like escapism as much as the next guy but not every movie needs to be entertainment. Movies like these can be pretty effective as discussion starters about social and political issues.
tl:dr vote Labour
Ken Loach really dropped off. Last few movies have been terrible. Well, either that, or I just realised how didactic and unrealistic his movies are, especially in terms of the actors' scripts. It's a middle class writer putting socialist commentary into the mouths of untrained actors. And using streets that I have lived in, and deliberately making them look run down (inserting 3 legged dogs) is akin to action movies that use colour scaling to make Beirut look like a shit-hole. The gig economy is something that needs spotlighting, but this movie does not deliver.
Look up the pareto distribution. It's a natural law, and if you try to legislate against it, you take steps towards setting up the gulags again.
I'm not sure I understand you here - I read your comment as "If you try to legislate against the poverty gap you end up with gulags". Did I misread?
What a hysterical reactionary you are Feo. You are a sad, sad little man, and I pity you
Jesus wept. Yes a fairer society is something to be feared alright.
Thick as mince comment, which makes no sense when scrutinised.
@@easytoassemble54321 I'm loving how the commies want the gulags back.
The story was strong but the acting (apart from the lead) was AWFUL.
Completely agree. The young girl was good too but the rest brought the whole movie down for me.
@Aaron NoneYa Completely agree with your views. We have a very corrupt system in place that keeps us working for little in return. And yes, the Bezos of the world have a LOT to answer for...
Try I, Daniel Blake (also by Loach). Similar themes but with outstanding acting from the whole cast. One of my favourite films in recent years.
That helps it appear to be more realistic, documentary like.
The fact that Ken Louch doesn't use professional actors adds to the surrealism of his work..
Personally, I think the lead actor did a phenomenal job.. The daughter also did an excellent job as well.
@@ousamaabdu794absolutely agree
This film was hilariously unconvincing. The use of non actors who couldn't deliver their dialogue gave it an amateur feel. It is a typical Loach essay. It's grim up north all over again. And Loach throws in all the cliches he can think of. Again.
Nonsense. It’s a fantastic film & the actors were all absolutely brilliant.
Millionaire takes time out from defending Ken Livingstone to make another dull film about the nobility of the mythical White Working Class?
Do you not think there are any poor white people? lol
@@deeingalaplike ...and you responded accordingly. (Hello,btw) I think we have both made our contractual contributions to the Internet. Coffee?