190 - Sorry We Missed You

Eavesdropping at the Movies · Nov 5, 2019 · 38m

Returning to Newcastle after shining his coruscating lens on the inhumanity of the benefits system in I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach now casts his eye on the gig economy and the exploitation of workers in Sorry We Missed You. A struggling dad and husband gets a job as a delivery driver, coerced into handling unfair responsibility and meeting impossible targets, with the stability of his family bearing the brunt of the stress. José argues that Sorry We Missed You only tells us what we already know; Mike contends that its dramatisation makes it scarily real. We're in agreement that it's not…