Sorry We Missed You

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.

Nothing new in this film among the acclaimed British director's signature elements. The only novelty is the present-day time context. And in a society grappling with technological innovation that disrupts everything with the hypocritical promise of a higher quality of life for all, the themes addressed by Ken Loach become possibly even more acute and pungent. This is _Sorry We Missed You_: a successful slap in the face of a system whose value pillars are destined to fail miserably if not changed at the root.
Yet another note of merit (again, nothing new) in the masterful performances of the selected non-professional actors.

It's a really emotional movie and it does a great job and building suspense without/with little music - definitely worth watching!

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.

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.

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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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 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.

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.