directed by Erik Gandini
I was pretty sure that if I let you choose what kind of recommendation I should post between a documentary and anything else you would choose anything else. How surprised I am to see that a majority of you voted for a documentary… so I guess I’m recommending one today. You want, I provide. By the way, do we have any unemployed readers here? Or maybe those who are tired of their jobs and wish to change them? Or maybe those who love what they do and life couldn’t be better? Well, whoever you are and whatever you do, this documentary is definitely worth your time. It focuses on the topic of work, its meaning in our life and how various forms it may have in different parts of the world. The director lets us meet several individuals, each of whom has a different job and thanks to that we may learn about their perspectives. This production shows how ridiculously our world is organised when it comes to employing people. There are those who work 15+ hours a day and barely have time to sleep because that’s the pressure which is put on them by their employers and society. But there are also those who are employed just for the sake of being employed – just to sit in the office and do absolutely nothing. For what? For money. You may think the second option sounds better. Well, to me both cases are examples of modern slavery. In our world, you can do anything with people as long as you offer them money for that. And somehow, we don’t think about our honour, our value or even our passions – getting any job means we’re already fine. I’ve got a job, I can’t complain – this kind of thinking is way too common. Millions of people are being used, underpaid, disrespected and treated like puppets. You may have heard this popular sentence “work is not your whole life”, but isn’t it? I mean, on the average, we spend at least 8 hours at work. It’s 1/3 of our day. Then we sleep for at least 7-8 hours. Let’s do some basic maths, shall we? We’re left with 8 hours a day to be ourselves. To do what we love, to spend time with our families, to have fun, to rest, but also to take care of our duties. 8 hours. And some people don’t even have that. In this film we also have a chance to reflect on younger generations who decide not to work at all. They simply want to have fun and live thanks to the income of their parents and grandparents. We could get judgmental (or jealous, name it yourself) here, but isn’t it a way of standing against this worldwide paranoia? What’s more, this documentary also focuses on the technological development and how it already affects employees all over the world. We, people, are already being replaced by machines who can do our work better, faster, more efficiently and perhaps even cheaper. So what will happen to us in the future? People are still coming, still being born, yet, as we can see, job opportunities are more and more limited. This documentary is a huge bowl of food for thought and I hope you’ll find a moment to grab a piece because it may push you to making more conscious decisions about your professional life. If only it’s possible.
My rating: 7/10
S.
I have nothing to watch 