The acting, screenwriting, and directing for Sorry We Missed You are top-notch, as the movie resists making the story into a hokey melodrama and. Sorry We Missed You (original title). Except this is a Loach movie, and along with being one of Earth's most venerable and venerated directors, he's almost without peer as a filmmaker formidably committed to exposing the sins of our wages.
The layered title "Sorry We Missed You" refers both to the false concern of the stickers left on homes when no one is there to receive the packages, and to those like the Turner family who are chillingly abandoned by the companies that pay them (it can scarcely be referred to as employment). Read Common Sense Media's Sorry We Missed You review, age rating, and parents guide. A Ken Loach movie is never going to be laugh-a-minute stroll in the park.
But, as with so many of his films, Sorry We Missed You provides a megaphone to a section of society whose voice is rarely heard. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall when Ken Loach first learned about the "gig economy.". Film Review: Ken Loach's 'Sorry We Missed You'. Yet it's his big-picture vision of the precarious economic forces that are holding our world together — and, increasingly, tearing it apart — that make "Sorry We Missed You" a fraught, touching, and galvanizing movie. The I, Daniel Blake director raises his game yet further with this gut-wrenching tale of a delivery worker driven to the brink. Like their previous movie, I, Daniel Blake, it depicts the human cost of an economic development that we are encouraged to accept as a fact of life.
Trailer Sorry We Missed You
Regardless, Sorry We Missed You is an important and timely watch. As Loach's Palme d'Or winner I, Daniel Blake bore down on the Department for Work and Pensions and a toxic culture that neglects the vulnerable, his new film arrives at a time when the gig economy is thriving without an end in sight. MOVIES. 'Sorry We Missed You': Film Review
Sorry We Missed You is potent in its examination of the human cost of the gig economy, focusing not necessarily on the bureaucracy itself, but on how the chaos Just as with Loach's previous movie, Sorry We Missed You conveys its intense power through the evident truth underpinning its storytelling. He has to work long hours and even has to bring a bottle with him to pee in. We speak to the cast of Sorry We Missed You. It's just as tough for his soft-spoken but strong-minded wife Abby, played with great empathy here by.