05 November 2007

It's a free world... (the movie)

My life is coming out a lot lighter in those days.... Yesterday for example we woke up late, indulged in bed for long, had lunch together and at 3.30pm I went to work. At 8.15 I was already back home, had a piadina in our favourite piadina-place and then went to the cinema to watch the last Ken Loach's movie: It's a free world...
For those of you who don't know Ken Loach or never watched his movies, it may be a little harsh... but if you already watched Bread and Roses (one of my favourite movie), The Navigators, and some other of his movies you can get to the point quite easily.
The realism in which the story grows give the movie extra power.
Angie (Kierston Wareing) is a women in the her prime who is full of energy and ambition. She has been through a lot of different jobs in the past and difficulties but now she want to show what she is worth and needs to keep her life in her hands. This is the moment! Together with her friend Rose (Juliet Ellis), Angie decides to start a recruiting agency.
It's a free world... it's a story about the modern English reality, characterized by the "miracle" of the flexible work, globalization, double shifts and by lots of happy consumer: us, who take advantage of the illegal immigration and of the poverty of a lot of persons.
The movie is all by Angie's point of view, and it doesn't give a solution... Loach just put the problem on a table and there it is...
It may be because I work with immigrants and poor persons or because I feel I am a victim (on a lighter note) of the flexible work but this movie get to a point that is central to nowadays society and should be surpassed!

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