Address: Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delépine.
Actors: Yolande Moreau , Lanners, Bwnôit Poelvoorde, Albert Duzontel.
Nationality: France.
Year: 2008.
Duration: 94 min .
factory in somewhere in Picardie, a group of workers out of work, just after the management assured them that despite the rumors, the factory will close. As a show of good faith, gives direction to each of them a robe with his name, a fact that deserves a joint celebration in a pub. The next morning they go to work are that the hangar where the factory was empty.
address has offered compensation. Ten of the workers get together and decide to pool their money and do something with it. Among the actions being considered are: assemble a pizza, make a calendar of them naked and kill the boss. Win this latest unanimously. Hire a hitman to finish off the boss. What end? The revenge I suppose.
This is a strange film, the first word that crosses my mind is "absurd" but not quite right, there is something in it that makes it less absurd than the fact that we have on a daily basis media. I suppose it is unrealistic in terms of exaggerated tone mainly by the number of situations that occur one after another. I guess the right word is surreal.
revenge as a plot certainly is not new, either in film or in life. Revenge against an act of social injustice is also done in a way so dirty, creating unnecessary expectations that make the fall is harder, puts the viewer side of the avenger. And so in this film. It is curious that even the end, when hurt innocent people just do not have a clear what he feels, because by then, it has been fond of these marginal characters after so many shocking situations, has lost the parameters of good and bad socially established .
Its main characters are Louise and Michel. Louise works in the factory is a big woman little awkwardly integrated among workers. She lives alone in a building that is about to be demolished, but as Louise can not read and does not socialize with neighbors, is not entirely until it falls behind a day after losing his job. Is learning to read, teach a child in your neighborhood, but so far has only learned the vowels. Because she is the one who proposed the assassination of the leader and takes care of finding the murderer begins to interact more with people, with the first factory workers and the murderer and his neighbor hired later.
Michel is the assassin. Louise is not who planned to hire but by chance he meets and begins his relationship. This is a lanky man, awkward and sloppy play in espionage and in fact has never killed anyone, nor can to do so, despite the money they offer but has enough cunning and amorality to find a solution.
Both are united by their poverty and marginalization. One difference, Michel lives in a fantasy world of American film while Louise is very realistic, even when the reality is surreal film dyes, takes life as it comes and respond naturally.
One of the key issues that the film portrays the inequality and social injustice. An injustice to which the oppressed, the battered, revolt, say enough. Before the pitorreo to which they are subjected: mint, stripped of their means of life, and "compensation" miserably, they decide to join these "claims" ridiculous and do something useful with them. Something that, while not going to solve life, will indemnify morally, or at least seem to believe. Indeed, the spectator, to see how to load a callous and sneaky characters who have cheated, humiliated and left on the street people in a precarious situation, could not but feel a pleasant energy shock, I guess because a projection of those issues of injustice that I have outstanding and will probably never have occasion to avenge. They say that revenge is not the way, it probably is, but how good you feel when viewed on the screen.
This reflects the social classes the rich are obscenely wealthy and the poor live in abject poverty and marginalization. Everyone seems to be sick, the rich richer diseases: is the great mogul posted to your every minute buying and selling stocks without stopping, objectify people in their surroundings, employees, wife, son ... and playing with them as if lego dolls they were while running the tape of his private gym or soaking up the sun in the hammock by the pool of his mansion, none of which is able to enjoy. We also found the chieftain of the factory that is passed idle days in his dingy office with the illusion of being powerful and having a ball power forward who does the dirty work, the last, lie to the workers about working conditions in which they find themselves. The degree of depersonalization of the social classes is at the point where the headquarters of a business group consists of boxes with the names of each member company, with no humans to be addressed, even to settle.
And are the poor, diseases of the poor: unemployment, lack of money to cover basic needs like food, eviction from their homes, illiteracy, which can lead to situations as grotesque as you can not read an ad that takes three months written on the door of your building you said that he would turn into ashes and you will run out of it and, so soon no longer have a place to live or even a place to go to claim it. So you just have to impotence, the feeling that nothing you can do when your rights are violated shamelessly. Maybe that's why such an extreme measure and unacceptable from a rational point of view, is can be emotionally acceptable.
have few both seem to be afraid of losing it and becoming obsessively collect his world in a mass of lifeless things buying and selling by the piece, the others have so little, how they are powerless remove even the little they have and are the only way out of his impotence false sense of power that can take the life of another person. Both play to be God in his own way, perhaps not to assume that poor or rich, we are powerless over what insurance affords us all, death.
The socially excluded are also a fundamental part of the plot, those people who society wants them to move apart and those spaces are reserved for the most remote and darkest of times. These spaces and the times that otherwise persist in maintaining to visit when our darker ghosts are tired and need rest so much hypocrisy in these margins, airing their shameful and perverse instincts (and unrecognized), allowing us to keep intact the illusion of living in a world of neat and spotless. Thus, among others in the film are manifest ex-offenders, transvestites, the killers, the paranoid recognized transsexuals, the dying, the sick, immigrants and the unemployed ... involved and support the future "official" system and seem invisible in daily life. The film beautifully reflects this in a moment in which Louise and Michel asked a street address a pedestrian dressed and he continues to walk as if even acknowledged its existence. The effect it has on me is the existence of two parallel planes of reality in terms of space and time that can not communicate. For the poor rich and the poor are the rich like a robot who does not get his voice. For each of the other is a ghost.
My sympathy is certainly with the poor and marginalized even as they cross the line of what is morally acceptable to me. Unfortunately, I have to confess that in my daily life I'm closer to the PLC hypocritical that helps maintain your lifestyle with poverty and marginality, that, as Laurie Anderson says, "is silent in three different languages" and agree with my silence and inequality and social injustice.
This film is dedicated to Louise Michel, a prominent French anarchist who was one of the leading figures of the Paris Commune (brief insurrection that occurred in 1871 and ruled the city of Paris for three months and that universal suffrage was introduced and a common political project self-managed), and was tirelessly committed to social causes and all those policies aimed at achieving equality and social justice. Also, was a poet, writer and educator. While the movie does not play directly the facts of the life of Louise Michel, does have aspects that reflect the tone of his life.
ttal Lizarraga
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