sweeneytom

Have a Nice Day

So many people in this stylistic animated noir (from the talented Liu Jian) put their health, future, and lives at risk in doomed ways for each of them...over a bag of cash. It becomes at times laughable and sad And then a scene happens where it suddenly clicks: a character has a conversation with another character, and freedom is mentioned as a thing one desires at the end of all this The other responds that there's three types of freedom: farmer's market freedom, where you're able to get whatever you want at a farmer's market; supermarket freedom, where you're able to get whatever you want at a supermarket; and online shopping, where you can go on any site and get whatever you want Chasing a full bag of cash for the runtime of ~70 minutes sans credits, each character wants to advance to a different, higher level of freedom than they're currently placed at in this society they never wished to be ranked in. Again though, it's doomed. Is that a spoiler of a sentence to say when you see stories like that every day? To have a nice day under capitalism is to tell yourself it gets better and you have dreams that you can and will fulfill. Even if it's as much a lie as anything anyone in the film says, it's something you have to tell yourself, have to believe. Regardless of how reliant the outcome is on your own actions alone