Review of I, Daniel Blake (2016) by John D — 31 Jul 2017
A brilliantly crafted and very moving film based on the awful reality of being unemployed in 21st century Tory Britain. It is an accurate portrayal of the way unemployed people are treated by the DWP and the government, at whose hands they are dehumanised. (Iain Duncan Smith, former head of the DWP, has described unemployed people as 'stock').
It portrays the desperate and degrading measures that people on benefits are forced to resort to in order to survive in a country where there are 6 million people unemployed (20% of the workforce) and unemployed people simply cannot get stable work which is half decently paid.
It is a timely portrayal of the state to which Thatcherite free market capitalism has reduced the people of this country, and it comes at a time when change for the better is in the air, with a Labour party led by Jeremy Corbyn, determined to end Thatcherism for good and improve Britain for the many, in the wings and ready to take power from a failing, incompetent and contemptible Tory regime.
This review of I, Daniel Blake (2016) was written by John D on 31 Jul 2017.
I, Daniel Blake has generally received very positive reviews.
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