You are also a migrant worker

Josie 2022-09-04 12:48:00

First of all, I call on everyone to watch this movie, a small-budget movie, produced in Ireland. Come hear the Irish accent, see the beautiful Irish streets, enjoy Irish music and laugh at Irish humor. Dublin is a very interesting city, please support it a lot. The film also took home an Oscar and its theme song "Falling Slowly" topped the charts.

Talk to the classmates who have seen it about the migrant workers in the movie.

Glen is an old failed Irish young man, in his own words, a hoover fixer sucker guy; he sings and sings on the street for some money, and goes home to help his dad fix the vacuum cleaner.
Marketa, an out-of-towner from the Czech Republic, lived by selling flowers and sometimes helping out as a cleaner.

Marketa is a migrant worker to Glen, as you can tell from his defensiveness towards her at the beginning of the movie; Glen looks at Marketa the same way he looks at the punk who stole his money at the beginning.

And Marketa has an idiot's husband who stayed in the Czech Republic and came to Dublin by himself; Glen's girlfriend also went to London alone, living in Chiswick, not a place where rich people live. By the end of the film, Marketa's husband finally decides to come to Dublin from the Czech Republic to find her; and Glen finally decides to leave Dublin to go to London to find his girlfriend.

Glen is to the fake guys in London what Marketa is to the peasants of Dublin, a migrant worker.

I hope to take this film to educate the majority of Dubliners, Londoners, Shanghainese, and Beijingers: You are also migrant workers, please don't wear tinted glasses to look at your compatriots from other places around you.

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Extended Reading
  • Ericka 2022-04-23 07:02:19

    I was so touched that it was pure and simple, plain as water, but completely touched. Thank you for the person who may change you. The result may not be perfect, but thank you for the right person and time. Fortunately, there is music and dreams to accompany you to become beautiful. Recall that the original sound really heard some familiar moments

  • Darryl 2022-04-23 07:02:19

    Except for the music other rough mess

Once quotes

  • [first lines]

    Heroin Addict: Fuckin' deadly you are, man.

    Guy: Don't fucking... don't fucking go near that case.

    Heroin Addict: What? I'm just tying me laces, man.

  • [repeated line]

    Guy: For fuck's sake...