I loathe most films about poverty that shove social issues in your face, but this one makes a noteworthy exception. The cinematography is essential but at the same far from turning everything into a cheap mockumentary. Instead, you can see that it's an actual film with carefully constructed scenes and dialogues. The natural performances and overall bleak mood made "Sorry We Missed You" one of those rare films that manage to define social problems without sounding preachy or overly sentimental. Drama gets a little heavy-handed in the second half, but it's never to the point it shows a lack of taste.
This s was depressing. Be sure you're in the right state of mind before you watch this. I went it in blind and I probably wouldn't have if I had known.
In the genre of 'Misery Porn', file Sorry We Missed You under 'Amateur'.
Ken Loach presents us (yet again) with struggling middle class members knee deep in their own shit and subsequently derives sadistic pleasure in slowly adding more and more shit until they all suffocate in their blue collar despair. The end.
This is misery p0rn. It's the worst parts of I Daniel Blake amplified by ten. Some very amateurish acting and it's shot like reality TV.
This is misery p.rn. It's the worst parts of I Daniel Blake amplified by ten. Some very amateurish acting and it's shot like reality TV.
This is misery porn. It's the worst parts of I Daniel Blake amplified by ten. Some very amateurish acting and it's shot like reality TV.
It turns out that the times of the factories, the mines and the strikes were good, now everything is even worse. Ken Loach can live a hundred years longer than he will always have material for his work dramas.
Modern slavery. Amazon style. Ken Loach and Paul Laverty portray the seedier side of our society. Like "I, Daniel Blake" (2016) and "My name is Joe" (1998), another masterpiece about survival. Live to have no life. The characters find no respite. The worst is yet to come. The wife's call to the slave boss is a cry of despair. But despair does not feed. There are movies that hit the stomach. This one beats it up.
I watched this movie primarily because it was done by the director of the fantastic I, Daniel Blake. Like that film, this film does a masterful job at showing a snapshot in time of people struggling in life. In a sense this film may have done too good of a job depicting the struggles in life because at times it felt like more of a documentary and less of a film. I hate to say it like this but the film lacked what the previous film had.
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It's a really emotional movie and it does a great job and building suspense without/with little music - definitely worth watching!
Shout by Lee Brown Barrow Movie BuffVIP 3BlockedParent2020-08-10T18:07:15Z
Yes, the film is miserable and depressing, but it's supposed to be. This is reality for many, and it's not meant to offer easy viewing. Ken Loach does what he does best, and makes us face the reality that is faced by so many. Watch it, and be a little kinder to the next Amazon delivery guy who comes to your door.