On the surface, this is a thriller about gig worker Emily (as in: the lower classes) with a gigantic student loan debt of 70K dollars, and an assault conviction, ensuring she won't ever get a decent job. One day she's offered an opportunity to do credit card fraud: 200 dollars for one hours work. From that point, she gets deeper and deeper into the criminal business.
But the film has deeper layers, it also shows how she, through an unfair justice system gets the mill stone of the assault conviction around her neck, when she was trying to get away from an abusive boyfriend. And when she finally sees the way out via a job, she actually studied for, she gets held back by the fact that Big Corp in America has the power to demand unpaid labor from anyone. They got that power via bribing Senators, changing laws so workers have no say whatsoever. The working class are wage slaves, pure and simple.
Then again, most viewers, reviewers and Americans do not even see the problem. They are like frogs in slowly boiling water, who don't notice the gradual temperature rise and won't jump out, until it's too late.
They've been brainwashed from birth to accept this as their lot and all poverty is 100% their own fault, lucky breaks are handed down from God. Meaning, rich people are picked by god to be rich, and it's useless, even blasphemy to resist that. This is the same what Iran says about women: Allah made you a 2nd rate person, accept that.
7 oth 10
The Melancholic Alcoholic.
But the film has deeper layers, it also shows how she, through an unfair justice system gets the mill stone of the assault conviction around her neck, when she was trying to get away from an abusive boyfriend. And when she finally sees the way out via a job, she actually studied for, she gets held back by the fact that Big Corp in America has the power to demand unpaid labor from anyone. They got that power via bribing Senators, changing laws so workers have no say whatsoever. The working class are wage slaves, pure and simple.
Then again, most viewers, reviewers and Americans do not even see the problem. They are like frogs in slowly boiling water, who don't notice the gradual temperature rise and won't jump out, until it's too late.
They've been brainwashed from birth to accept this as their lot and all poverty is 100% their own fault, lucky breaks are handed down from God. Meaning, rich people are picked by god to be rich, and it's useless, even blasphemy to resist that. This is the same what Iran says about women: Allah made you a 2nd rate person, accept that.
7 oth 10
The Melancholic Alcoholic.