Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Morality is luxury

The rules under which people behave in their community organizing, are complicated - which makes it easy to learn about their own role hinwegzutäuschen. What, for example, cruel: an illegal immigrant who has no other chance, an illegal job to deny, according to the motto "no papers, no work"? Or him the job, even though it is worse to spoilage and extradite a profit machine, the only reason wants him because he protection and is helpless?

There are those moral self-deception techniques with which Angie (Kierston Wareing) holds over water. At the beginning of Ken Loach's new film "It" sa Free World "liar them for a job placement firm windy London workers from the Eastern bloc the Blue down from the sky. Then, as they are from a colleague betatschen can not, it will be fired and switches sides Your body belongs her, only her soul is for sale. She makes her own job on. And soon people will find that they can exploit their part, to the last in the chain.

Ken Loach films play, where the policy's personal life, and this is about losers and winners of a bright profit striving hard to become unaffordable luxury morale. Angie lives with her girlfriend and business partner Rose in a winding small house, her son has it in their parents' house - too little time and too little space, she wants him to get back as soon as they sometimes with a job at a green branch comes. That is now the new self happen, and the first thing is good for Angie and bad for everyone who with her gets to do - the Cockney small capitalists, which it conveys workers are on the funnel come illegal forces that are easier to plague, and makes with Angie. And is doing its utmost to ensure that the store runs - celebrates worst betrayal of an Iranian family, to which it originally wanted to worry about, rushes to the residents of a trailer park the immigration authority at the neck, because it takes place elsewhere - until they are no longer friends and no, they still may be. The fuel in the engine of capitalism, says Ken Loach, is the greed for more. No more than the fear Angie could still stop - something but who has also something to lose, and Angie stands at the front end of the question, what fear is greater: the revenge against the victim or her before the total financial ruin.

This movie has made a man who hopes that the cinema has no influence, because otherwise we would have lost - "the most action films from a guy, with a gun solves a problem. The ideology of mainstream cinema is right." Loach is an avowed friend left and no simple solutions. And although he actually one of the most respected directors in Europe - Elf ran his films in competition at Cannes, Berlin and four in four in Venice, the record should be - he is always more in the reputation advised, too much ideology into his films stuck. Now he has actually always have a political plan when he tells a story, but "It" sa Free World ", exciting, humane, warm, is in itself evidence enough that he does not have the börsenregierten modern intellectuals is obsolete.

Freedom of decision

He had spent so much time, to defend his films, as it took them to make, says Loach. His work is like mischievous attributed to the socialist realism, he would take his characters to develop, as they only use voice. That is not true - Angie does not speak with Loach's voice. Loach feels even more the tradition of Dickens used, and "It" sa Free World "is the exact opposite of a socialist Heldenepos. Loach's world is actually free - it requires an audience as a permanently own decisions.

Of course, his figures parabelhafte alternates - Angie partner, the reasons of leaving, her father, an old man with honor. But they add in their history, are a product of its time, as the figures are there, with which it is Dickens' David Copperfield gets to do it. Angie is a child from the London Towers and the Bank of the credit card wealth. But is a monster they never just a social loser who refuses to accept that anyone can do with it what he wants. She wants her self-esteem back, wants to include the winners, and this is not responsibility or compassion.

They would not allow a still make it difficult to reject it - Kierston Wareing, an absolute newcomer screen, it plays superbly, with a lot of energy and charm - they would not have the same effect. Loach interested in the psychology, which dahintersteht, the mechanics of a society where on the border between winners and losers with increasingly brutal methods of fighting - and this is Angie, at the dranbleiben you always want the perfect projection screen. The unrest in the camera rides, the distance from which you Angie hinterherschaut on their motorcycle, driven underscores her action, her restlessness, interrupted the Loach own style, its typical elements: naturalistic, always filmed on location, and often with scenes discussions between the characters , Showed almost no big shots and shot - the kitchen table gives the perspective that we can and we should address these discussions as a spectator not escape.

"It" sa Free Word "is already in the past year in Venice gone. That he here now but still comes to the cinema, is perhaps the fact that he had in the meantime topical won. Loach's films will be one day the most accurate records of Among his social consciousness, more accurate than any other director, has Vincent Canby wrote twenty years ago. How right he was, one can perhaps understand better than ever. SUSAN Vahabzadeh.


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