Sorry We Missed You (2019)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 101 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / France / Belgium
Directed by: Ken Loach
Stars: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood and Rhys Stone
IMDb score:
7,6 (28.277)
Releasedate: 4 October 2019
Sorry We Missed You plot
Since the financial crash in 2008, the Turner family has struggled with money problems. Hoping to make ends meet, Ricky, the family's patriarch, buys a new vehicle to build a delivery service. Meanwhile, his wife Abbie also works hard as a nurse. The family members know what they can do with each other, but the challenges they face will affect their close bond.
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Actors and actresses
Ricky Turner
Abby Turner
Seb Turner
Liza Jane Turner
Gavin Maloney
Henry Morgan
Freddie
Rosie
Robert
Reviews & comments
rep_robert
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- 27537 messages
- 4132 votes
You have to be able to withstand a portion of misery with a Ken Loach film, I noticed after seeing his last two films. What a load of misery people can get in this society.
The strong point about Sorry we Missed You are the characters. It almost feels like a mortal sin to use this term, because that's not how the people in the film feel at all. No, they are real people who kind of band together at the bottom of society and fight to tie the knots together. You never get the feeling that you are watching a movie. Ricky and Annie have realistic jobs that feel familiar for this day and age. You almost feel guilty if you get angry with PostNL or DHL when they don't come on time.
The work pressure they experience is enormous and this also affects the family dynamics. Loach does a great job of portraying this process of sliding slowly into the abyss. All emotions come along, but I do want to give Loach the advice to limit the big box of misery now and then and to make the message a little more hopeful. Every time you think it can't get any worse, it gets a few degrees worse. Sometimes there is a downside to the extreme realism of characters and situations in a film.
The sense of urgency may be lacking because a specific goal is not being worked towards. It happens to you. And that's how I can best describe this movie.
4.0*
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mrklm
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- 12190 messages
- 10362 votes
A poignant but very realistic story is undoubtedly typical of the state of Britain and painfully depicts how the segregation of the labor market is destroying families. At the center is a family consisting of father Ricky [Kris Hitchen], mother Abbie [Debbie Honeywood], son Sebastian [Rhys Stone] and his younger sister Lisa Jane [Katie Proctor]. Ricky and Abbie were about to buy their dream home in 2010, but due to the banking crisis, Ricky lost his steady job, leaving the family still living in a rented house that was too small. Ricky and Abbie have to work hard to support their family, but are drowning in a system where efficiency comes at the expense of human dignity. As a result, the family gets into a downward spiral from which it seems impossible to come out.
It's a depressing story, but Ken Loach fully believes in that story and in his characters, judging by the cast's completely believable performances. Those who have followed British politics in recent years beyond the Brexit ramblings will realize that this story is very close to reality for hard-working, humble working-class families. The hospital scene shows how much pressure the NHS is under, but it's the moments of human dignity that will leave a huge lump in your throat and one that will remain etched in your memory for a long time: Nurse Abbie leaving her family behind late to help a disabled woman who has been unaided for four hours and can't go to the bathroom on her own, a confused woman singing a nursery rhyme while brushing the hair of crying Abbie, Ricky's plea for a few days off, Lisa Jane's confession, not to mention the final scene. Ken Loach encourages the likes of Ricky and Abbie in this brutal denunciation of the modern labor market in a masterful, but above all human drama.
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De filosoof
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- 2544 messages
- 1743 votes
Loach makes it clear that his films are a social critique – more specifically a critique of capitalism and the bureaucracy that puts profit or the system above man – but this film certainly effortlessly transcends the level of an SP pamphlet.
In the beginning, the film seems to simply want to show how couriers and home care workers – symbolic of many freelancers and zero-hour contracts – are exploited, but the film immediately captivates and gradually the events grab your throat as the pressure on Ricky and Abbie increases and eventually becomes unsustainably large when the adolescent son also crosses the line (because the parents, like modern slaves, always have to work and therefore have no time for their children). The film makes a big impact by letting the viewer experience through this one family what kind of a rotten society we have become without the film feeling unrealistic or pushy: just like Ricky, you get the urge to go wild or like Abbie. crying for a week. But Ricky and Abbie themselves (almost) don't: they contain themselves in a desperate attempt to keep their heads above the water, which only makes their suffering invisible and more poignant. That Ricky and Abbie are such lovely people - or at least have their hearts in the right place - makes their fate so tragic and the film so extra dramatic.
The film is a compelling political critique of today's society and one of the most poignant films of 2019, rightly receiving high ratings from press and public alike.
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