以前共産党系の人が勧めていた映画
It's a Free World...
The film highlights the complexity of these relationships - migrants who have no legal authority to work are grateful to the agency for the chance to do so, but employers are only keen to have them because their vulnerability makes them compliant. The chances of detection are low, and anyway the worst offences against workers will go unpunished - forced labour is no crime in New Labour's Britain. Unsafe transport, overpriced accommodation, questionable pay slips, unpaid wages and tax fraud are all accurate reflections of the experience of agency workers - particularly migrants, whatever their legal status.
The young women are increasingly caught in the contradictions of trying to rise above their own misery by standing on the shoulders of those below, with grim consequences for them and those around them.
貧困から抜け出そうとするイギリス人女性が彼女らより惨めな不法移民を搾取する映画。
落語でも映画でも一定のリズムがあると乗りやすいのだが、この映画は、私のあったテンポがなかった。
それでも、印象に残った場面は以下。
It's a massive salad factory.
He supplies all the chains.
He's got this infra-red machine, right?
You know what that's for?
To make sure passports are legal.
No. To make sure they're illegal.
But it covers his back, see?
See, if they have a valid passport, that
equals no job. They're scared shitless.
He don't get no back chat.
- Really?
- No. Do you want his number?
Grandad) Are you paying them the minimum wage?
(Angie ) Oh... Look.
- These people are starving at home.
- Do you pay them the minimum wage?
- Tell me.
- For God's sake...
Next I'm gonna be getting the blame
for climate change.
I can't pay because I have no money.
I am not a liar.
Stop, stop. OK, OK.
This is the third time it's happening.
Liverpool, Birmingham and now.
This is not good.
- We have families.
- (Angie ) I've got a family as well.
You treat us like animals.
We work very hard. We are desperate.
We need money now.
We can't wait any more
England is hard place.
It's in their eyes
when they hear my voice,
when they look at us,
when they give an order.
I'm a man. I'm not a servant.
I'm ashamed.
I feel dirty.
I mean, I'm no saint. But what you did
back there... It's disgusting.
I mean, Christ.
We've made a living out of them.
We all do.
Look at me.
I said look at me.
Anj, look at me.
Is there anything you won't do?
I don't know. Probably not, no.
I don't know you any more.
