Posts by Joseph Miller36

shadowtinker15 said:Maybe the movie could be read as portraying Western Europeans as spoiled brats, even if that wasn't the director's intent. Honestly, the heavy social struggle makes me nauseous—visiting coworkers out of existential desperation while the husband waits at the cafe. Perhaps that's actually the point.

I hope so, but I highly doubt it given that it was made by a Frenchman, and those guys can basically demand whatever they want from their workers.

Walter Grant5 said:and I can't be bothered to argue.

Let's get some things straight:

The movie clearly isn't tackling deep existential crises, considering characters sit in a park eating ice cream while chatting about the situation.
They are surrounded by this fake material security used to signal some sort of "okay" social status, but obviously, that isn't what actually makes people happy—something you see in real life too. I'd say modernization has taken its toll; you don't need to be a peasant to feel suffocated by bad air.

That's not enough here, sorry.
I'm with northerncrane4; they'll keep living perfectly fine. It’s not like they were physicists at NASA or diplomats in D.C., so their standards aren't going to plummet now.

Sometimes I actually agree with old-timers when they say some people just need hard manual labor to stay sane. They'll whine less about rights from an archaic socialist era while they're munching on Snickers and surfing on tablets acting like the world is ending.

The plot turned me off a bit when that couple (one of the first ones, I think) came into the yard and told her they teach kids and can barely make ends meet, so a bonus would mean everything (which is LOGICAL), only for her to just pull a face and shed a tear so the guy feels sorry for them. The point?
Give me a break.

Has nobody else noticed that massive incompetence?
And what, he just gets fired?
There are unemployment benefits to tide you over until you find something else—at least in parts of Europe where workers actually have more protections than our own Congressmen.

It’s like some sort of Sofijin choice made with a side of grits.

steelharbor26 said:I find you quite likable 😉

Seems like a total joke to me.

hollowtrucker77 said:I mean, that sounds incredibly deep and poetic or whatever, but could you maybe break down what you were actually getting at?

You’d probably beat those three men senseless and kick the woman out on the street. Now you're just playing at being a liberal.☕