Audience reaction to “On Falling”

14 response slips were returned. The breakdown, and comments were:

  • ‘Excellent’: 5 votes
    • Touching portrayal of the impossible position many people in the gig-economy find themselves in, one unexpected expense being the difference between just about surviving and abject poverty.
    • Real and very, very uncomfortable film [?] lives of people we had maybe never deeply thought about.  Poverty in isolation.
      this was a deeply moving film.
    • A mesmeric performance from Joana Santas.  More than a hint of Ken loach here, and I had always thought that teaching was bad…!
    • Pete Seeger sang about Little Boxes –  only 100 times worse.
  • ‘Very Good’: 5 votes
    • Down the Ken Loach/Paul Laverty road, but from the female perspective.
    • Great choice – heartbreaking ending.  Very natural performance by the lead.
    • Depressing but it made me feel grateful.  The fragility of her world was very carefully portrayed[?]. Understated – but hidden warmth.
    • Ken Loach like.  A savage assessment of the world of work we’ve created.  Not the utopia technology was promised to deliver.
    • Memories of shared living as a young adult.   The interview was uncomfortable as out of work she was merely trying to survive.
  • ‘Good’: 4 votes
    • Unrelenting, but sadly so true for “fulfilment” centre workers.
    • Watching people – fascinating.  But what was all the ‘junk’ (made in China?) that the poor girl was ‘processing’?  All she seemed to need was the comfort of strangers.
    • Film about surviving depression.  Great symbolism, subtle foreshadowing.  Love an open ending.  Despite being slow paced, still managed to keep interest the whole way.
    • Was definitely a slow burn but I did leave smiling in the end – just grateful it wasn’t a sad ending.  I like that all the workers had names in the credits, even if they never said them on screen.
  • ‘Satisfactory’: 0 votes
  • ‘Poor’: 0 votes

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