'the world in which these dreams made sense is long gone...' (not to 'get ahead of himself')

'we were indeed angry, and this anger motivated us to make this film, particularly when we found out that there’s a huge number of unaccompanied minors who disappear. no one seems to worry about it. that absolutely has to change.’ - luc dardenne, london film festival.

the characters in the dardennes brothers' films are all trying to 'drop back in' to regain a toehold in society - whether keeping that job or establishing a relationship. joshua craze's article in NLR sidecar argues these efforts are doomed - that world of work, that solidarity between people, is simply gone, living on only as habit.

horsemouth really only knows rosetta (girl rats out another employee to take their job - this is already more realistic than 9/10th of other social dramas) and two days and one night (woman fights to keep her shit job assembling solar panels literally having to beg her co-workers). 

this complaint - that work is ending, that solidarity is ending, of social breakdown - is a familiar one. it is (curiously) the world of noir - a grim war of each against all. 

granted the world can be grim and people's efforts to keep a toehold in it often fail but solidarity and empathy are not entirely gone (otherwise there would be no drama in these situations, these films - we simply wouldn't care). 

and there would be no political point in the lesson taught (even as the films avoid the teaching of a simple lesson). there would be no getting angry, the film would not get made, and it would have no (imagined) effect on the plight of young asylum seekers.

horsemouth is interested to find out the dardennes made documentaries on labour struggles and factory workers 'back in the day'. 

horsemouth is writing this in the afternoon of what is now 'the day before'. he's trying not to write too much of it (not to get 'ahead of himself'). he likes to imagine these posts being read. to imagine specific people reading them. 

horsemouth now makes notes in his 'page a day' diary. 

yesterday he attempted to keep a media diary of all he watched and read. he's reading a lot of the daily torygraph, this would have you believe that trans rights is everywhere, the banking system is about to collapse and that every house will soon be fitted with an airsource heat pump by a socialist conservative government hell bent on reducing carbon emissions to net zero in defiance of climate skepticism. 

horsemouth is just off to feed the chickens. he's back in a few minutes. there he's back. 

'didn't I buy you a really nice note book once.' prompted TG.

horsemouth replied 'you did indeed (but now it is full).'

farewell then dominic raab (retires at next election on a majority of a mere 2,700) 'I am not a bully.' that was your catchphrase. because of course you wouldn't quit immediately, of course you'd run that 82k a year salary right out to the end

today another meeting (hopefully some progress).