Clever

Rating: 10/10 (7 January 2020)

It doesn't score that high a grades. I watched it without premonitions, but even if I had watched it with premonitions, it slammed me hard enough in the face with what it was about, and it was pretty clever. What's at stake? One life? Yours? Is there anything you can do? Should you try? Do you give up? And what does fate have in store for you?
Fate is pretty important in this movie and its message rings heartfelt and true.
Relevance?
If you don't get safety, healthcare, a basic infrastructure, and the education you ask for, why do we pay taxes? We pay, but we get jack. No healthcare, doctors playing their own judges, the police not recognizing our democratically elected system of law, and a bunch of formerly rich family have-beens holding on to their last straws, realizing that they really aren't any better off than the rest of us, but keeping up pretenses to safeguard themselves, even though if they were to just do what they're supposed to do, no one would have anything to worry about.
Some people don't like the story. I think it was honest and true. That's what I witness in the Netherlands and everywhere else. But hey, why find a parallel? I mean, the US, right? They pay taxes, have to get healthcare insurance anyway, that they pay for, but as soon as they get sick insurance kicks them out. Insurance is only there for those that don't need it. And tax payers' money? Use that to run GM into the ground.
A bit of a spoiler, but not in terms of the plot.