Abstract:

This study examines the movie Sorry We Missed You in the context of Karl Marx's concept of alienation. Known for his films on the working class, Ken Loach presents the exploitative relations of employees and capital owners, the problems arising as a result, loneliness and alienation, in all its reality, in order to create surplus value and ensure its own existence and continuity in the capitalist system. Alienation is a phenomenon that Marx developed by pointing to the capitalist mode of production and has a burning and destructive effect in the social process in which the workers are physically and mentally involved. While developing his arguments about alienation, Marx makes an analysis over the proletariat. However, in this film, which is processed on the precariat example, an order in which alienation is even deeper today is criticized. As a matter of fact, the movie Sorry We Missed You tells the struggle and the process of elementary family trying to cope with the economic difficulties struggling in the whirlpool of capitalism. The issue of alienation, which is visible in such a capitalist order, manifests itself in various forms around different characters throughout the film. Therefore, in this study, the focus will be on the content of the film, the messages given and the theme, rather than the technical elements specific to the film in question.

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