Ratings and analysis of the movie "Sorry, We Missed You"

"Sorry, We Missed You"

Sorry We?Missed?You (2019)

This movie is about an older rookie courier The entrepreneurial story of Ricky Turner.

The content of the story is: "Ricky was crying alone in the car. What happened?"

The original text of the film title "Sorry We Missed You": "Sorry We Missed You" Missed You”. This English sentence appears many times in movie scenes.

It is printed on a small card held by the protagonist.

This kind of card is issued uniformly to couriers by courier companies. What this does is, it tells the customer that the delivery failed, literally because you missed our delivery because you were not at home.

Here is a digression, an online joke about British couriers.

Although the contents of the cards are different, British express companies all use cards with similar functions to those in the movie.

British netizens posted about express delivery on the Internet and turned this little card into an internet celebrity.

Their core purpose is to make fun of British couriers by posting the express mail they received.

The experiences of these netizens are roughly the same. Regardless of whether they are at home or not, even if they open the door only 15 seconds late, they will find that their express parcels have been thrown away by the courier in a place that makes people laugh or cry.

For example, packages were hung from the porch beams.

Or, the package is thrown in through the toilet window and just falls into the toilet.

The package was even hidden under the doormat. Imagine that when you come home from get off work, a large package as tall as a person stands alone in front of your door, with a small floor mat on your head. In this case, the person involved would probably be stunned first and then stunned.

No matter how bizarre the whereabouts of the express parcel is, there will always be a small card with "Sorry We Missed You" written on it, which will be placed in a conspicuous position at the door.

The topic returns to movies.

The protagonist of the story is Ricky Turner, a rookie courier.

He is said to be a rookie because Ricky has no experience delivering express delivery before. At the beginning of the movie, Ricky completed the interview to join the express delivery company, successfully signed the contract, and became a cute new delivery boy.

Subsequently, Ricky strode onto the road of entrepreneurship, but his steps were too big and too hasty.

Originally, franchisees who did not have a truck could rent a truck from a courier company.

However, Ricky insisted on buying a car by himself. If you want to start a business, you need to do everything.

Also, Ricky could have bought a cheaper van. Of course, such a car has slightly lower configurations and a smaller cargo capacity. However, this can reduce investment and reduce risks.

As a result, with the instigation of his friends, Ricky decided to go all in one step and buy a truck with higher configuration and larger cargo capacity. Correspondingly, the price was more expensive and he had to buy the car in installments.

Even more impulsively, in order to pay the down payment for a car, Ricky sold his wife's car. This is the only valuable possession in the family.

After all this trouble, the Turner family, which was already in debt and extremely poor, suffered both a visible loss and an invisible risk.

Looking in the brighter direction, there is finally some hope for better days. However, the reality is far from that simple.

What is deeply disturbing is that Ricky and the express company signed an unequal franchise contract, which contains huge hidden dangers.

Ricky is not employed by the courier company, but franchised. In courier company parlance, Ricky is "self-employed," meaning he is his own boss and hires himself.

To put it nicely, Ricky is a freelancer. To put it more fashionably, Ricky is a practitioner in the "gig economy". To put it more simply, Ricky is A self-employed person.

In the eyes of express delivery companies, labor like Ricky is more cost-effective than employees.

First of all, self-employed people work harder.

Self-employed people think that they are working for their own business, so they work harder than ordinary employees.

Secondly, by using self-employed people, the express delivery company does not have to bear the responsibilities and obligations that the employer should bear. For example, paying for insurance or providing vacation time for employees.

However, express delivery companies that call themselves "franchisees" manage self-employed people more harshly than they treat employees, and their attitude towards self-employed people is also colder.

Under this franchise method, the couriers bear great risks, and they have no guarantee when problems arise.

Although Ricky Turner is a cutie among couriers, he is no longer young. When he reaches middle age, he brings up a family, and the couple raises a pair of children.

The eldest son is a half-grown boy. Regardless of whether he can eat enough to kill me, the child's vague contempt for his father, coupled with the inevitable rebellion in adolescence, is enough to piss Ricky to death. Several times.

Ricky looks like a rough guy, but in fact he is very gentle to his family and never quarrels with his wife. Even though his son often skips school and talks to his biological father unruly, he doesn't care about his children. Moved too harshly.

He probably wanted to persuade his son with good words and reason. Ricky is not good at talking and can't talk to children.

Although the eldest son is a troubled youth, he has a good head. The young man's thoughts may be a little extreme and cynical. However, he had a clear view of his family and the situation of people of the same class in British society. Therefore, at a young age, he had already seen through the world of mortals, had no interest in learning, and focused on pursuing the path of art.

What is gratifying is that the youngest daughter is smart and very well-behaved. At a young age, not only can he take care of himself, live his daily life, and study his homework without his parents having to worry about it, but he can also supervise his ineffective brother for his mother.

Many nights, the Turners fell asleep on the sofa in embarrassment after a hard day's work. The daughter always quietly puts away the tableware that her parents left on the table and didn’t have time to put away.

Whenever my daughter has a chance on weekends, she will accompany her father to deliver express delivery. The little girl is much smarter at work than Ricky, the father.

When having lunch with her father, even though she only had a simple sandwich for lunch, her daughter would still say a lot of heart-warming words to make her father happy. Looking at the little cotton-padded jacket next to him, Ricky felt that he was willing to vomit blood even if he was tired.

However, my daughter is still a child after all. No matter how sensible she is, she will get into trouble sometimes. This quirky little girl would also do some ridiculous things with a strange mind from time to time. Let Ricky be defenseless.

The hardest part is Ricky’s wife Abby, a caregiver.

Most of the customers are elderly or disabled people, and they have to go door to door to wake them up and make breakfast. In addition to accompanying her, she also has to take care of her. When you are unlucky, you must greet customers with a smile and offer kind words when you encounter a customer with a bad attitude.

You know, the car Ricky sold was Abby's means of transportation between customers.

Abby is the family's sole breadwinner whenever Ricky's income becomes unstable. Because Ricky wants to save face, he is unwilling to apply for unemployment benefits.

Now, Ricky wants to start a business. In order to support her husband, Abby is willing to let her husband sell his car and take the bus to travel between customers.

As a result, Abby, who was already very hardworking, is now even more tired. Coupled with the pressure of family life, it is only a matter of time before the wife loses control emotionally.

Rich took his son's contempt, his daughter's encouragement, and his wife's hard work and grievances into his heart. Unable to let down his wife and children, he eagerly seizes any opportunity that seems promising to escape poverty.

Before the 2008 world financial crisis, Ricky was a construction worker.

The Turners have chosen their favorite house and even completed the mortgage loan procedures. Their warm home is within easy reach.

However, the bank suddenly had problems, and Ricky lost his job. From then on, the Turner family never owned their own house.

After that, Ricky could not find a stable job and could only work as part-time or part-time workers.

He was fed up with the inhumane working environment at the construction site and could not She endured unreasonable employers and lazy colleagues, and she hated the landlord's many difficulties.

Finally, one day before the movie started, Ricky’s friend recommended this express company and their franchise program to him.

Ricky felt that this was the opportunity he had been waiting for a long time.

Because he can be his own boss without being exploited by his employer.

Although there is no guaranteed salary, he is paid according to his work, and the more he works, the more he gets. Therefore, the hard-working Ricky no longer has to be held back by his useless colleagues.

Most importantly, substantial income. As long as you do it successfully for a long time, you can buy a long-awaited house, say goodbye to rental housing, and no longer have annoying landlords whispering in your ears.

The human brain is a cunning little devil. It is best at talking sweet words into people's ears, making you willingly only stare at what you want, but turn a blind eye to the dangers in front of you.

Ricky took a risk and made a desperate move. When he ran towards the possibility of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich, he failed to see the huge hidden danger he brought to his family.

Although the Turner family is poor, they can still maintain food and clothing. But now, if they are not careful, this family will be starved of food, saddled with huge debts, and even end up sleeping on the streets.

Whether Ricky's entrepreneurial journey goes smoothly, and where will the future of the Turner family go? This is the story that the movie "Sorry We Missed You" will tell us.

As of the publication of this article, the IMDb and Douban ratings of the movie "Sorry, We Missed You" are:

?IMDb rating: 7.7

? Douban rating: 8.3

The movie rating of Chasing Movies Year by Year (ID: dianyingnian) is:

Chasing Movies Year by Year rating: 7.8

The following is an interpretation of the ratings .

Ordinary faces, daily stories, simple street scenes, the soundtrack is the hustle and bustle of the city, making the movie very difficult to watch.

With both depth and breadth of insight into life, this film is an immersive experience of the lives of British working people.

In the movies of recent years, British people have appeared most in Fantasy World, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones.

▲The actor who plays Ricky’s wife Abby Turner, Debbie Honeywood (picture comes from the Internet)

However, there are no miracles and miracles in this movie Magic, only trivial everyday things.

However, triviality is not boring. The movie is like an introductory guide to daily life in England. The life insights and knowledge of the lower-class workers are dissolved into the plot, making it full of immersion.

The movie takes us to see the British streets without castles and mazes, and to experience the life of British mortals outside the fantasy world.

5 cents for this, it’s a “bad” thing that is hard to swallow.

How can a middle-aged rough man, a man with tattoos and playing with wheels, cry just because he wants to cry? Everyone has had a similar experience of working while sick. As for crying, or whatever, it was so bad that I couldn't swallow it.

If you don’t think it’s the case, maybe you are relieved as time has passed.

More likely, the bad thing is that there was no group visit.

▲The actor who plays courier Ricky Turner, Kris Hitchen (picture from the Internet)

In fact, the movie can be renamed, "Ricky Why?" cry".

They say life is like boiled water. Director Ken Loach deserves to be called a master. A man driving a car sheds tears alone, a picture of life as light as clear water, which was extended by the master to create the charm of tea.

The climax of the movie is triggered by an accidental event, which weakens the inevitability of the movie's ending and interrupts the original rigorous logic of the plot.

Ricky was under the dual pressure of heavy work and family disputes, and was exhausted mentally and physically. However, Ricky's body and mind could still bear it.

At this moment, a robbery first broke Ricky's body and pushed his heart to collapse. The plot of the movie reaches its climax.

At first glance, there was nothing wrong with the robbery. In life, robberies happen suddenly and without warning. For victims, robbery is a typical incident.

Life is full of accidental events, but in the world of movies, accidental events cannot appear randomly.

Ricky’s entrepreneurial story can be triggered by an accidental event. For example, he accidentally heard that a friend had joined an express delivery company and the business was pretty good, so he decided to join the company. Then, the movie started.

▲Screenwriter of the movie "Sorry, We Missed You": Paul Laverty (picture from the Internet)

The audience has a whole movie to witness the beginning of the movie How an accidental incident at that time, in the hands of a film master, turned into an inevitable and inevitable ending at the end of the film.

The robbery that Ricky encounters, this accidental incident, occurs near the end of the film. The consequence is that the inevitability carefully created throughout the film instantly turns into accident. The ending is not an inevitable objective fact, but a deliberate arrangement by the author. The explosive power of the climax is greatly reduced.

The movie expresses an open-ended point of view, which although clever, affects the viewing experience.

At the beginning of the movie, Ricky gave a long monologue. He recounted his past work experience and the reasons why he chose to change jobs each time. For example, the conditions are too difficult, the work is too fragmented, colleagues are too lazy, and they are not motivated to work, etc.

Towards the end of the movie, Ricky was beaten by a group of gangsters and was seriously injured, but he insisted on going to work. When his son stood in front of the truck to dissuade him, Ricky explained to his son that he had to work and he had no choice.

One by one, Ricky changed. From being able to freely choose whether to work to someone who has no choice.

What the director wants to accuse capital of forcing free workers into free slaves.

I still want to praise that the hardships in the entrepreneurial process and the constant bonds between family members have made an old boy who is used to giving up grow into a mature man who does not give up easily.

▲The movie "Sorry, We Missed You" Director: Ken Loach (picture from the Internet)

From different perspectives, both viewpoints seem to be able to Makes sense.

This is because, from the above two aspects, the plot does not push the protagonist to the limit.

Ricky still has the right to give up everything, just like the son's advice to his father, just go back to the past.

At the same time, impulsive decisions do not prove that Ricky has completely changed. After calming down, he may still choose to give up again.

One of the effects of this situation is that the audience feels that the movie is not enjoyable enough, because people are eager to experience extreme life experiences in the movie.

The other kind is confusion, the audience will wonder whether the movie is not finished.

However, those who follow the film year by year subjectively believe that the open expression of the director’s point of view is unique and ingenious.

The purpose is to only narrate the facts without making comments, so as to focus the audience's energy on the living conditions of the bottom workers, instead of wasting the audience's energy on arguing about right and wrong.

So, is it good or bad, plus or minus?

The opinion score is only 4 points because I hope my evaluation can be as objective as possible, so that it can be of reference value to my friends.

At the same time, watching movies is highly subjective. Therefore, there will be a subjective bonus point for each movie's score year after year. Its function is to seek a balance between subjective factors and objective factors.

The plot score is calculated based on the scores of knowledge, emotion, logic and perspective, so no details will be given.

▲The movie "Sorry, We Missed You" Director: Ken Loach (picture from the Internet)

Stop quarrels, restrain expressions, and seek attention for workers. The wisdom of the elderly.

The realistic style of this film is like the British version of "telling the people's own stories".

The purpose of focusing on realism is to only state the phenomenon and be as true and fair as possible.

It needs to be mentioned here that when humans talk to others, they always instinctively pay attention to the critical information in the other party's words.

However, there is no perfect point of view in this world, and there will always be people who disagree with it.

At the same time, another characteristic of human beings when communicating is that they are always ready to retort.

Often, after the war of words is over, no one remembers the phenomenon itself that sparked the controversy.

Ken Loach, the director of this film, wisely adopted the technique of "nonviolent communication" and only stated the phenomenon without commenting.

In order to achieve the original intention of my creation, let more people understand and pay attention to the living conditions of the British bottom workers.

In the end, "Sorry We Missed You" is a movie worth watching.

The film cuts out fleeting moments in a long life. We in front of the screen are not aware of the flow of time, it has already flown by.

The film’s point of view is open-ended. Do we choose to complain about the cruelty of fate and the injustice of life, or do we choose to learn from the pain, review ourselves, and start all over again. Or choose both.

This is real life, a multiple-choice question with no standard answer.

The ending of the movie is open, and so is life. When the screen is turned off and the play button of life is pressed again, if we want to know what will happen next, let’s see what choices we make at this moment.

The vast sea of ????people meets each other because of light and shadow.

Thousands of miles apart, we know each other through words.

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