As the trite saying goes, “Every day is exactly the same.” Same Old Song and Dance It’s a meandering, boring and unengaging story, but perhaps that’s the point. The film remixes the lore of Sisyphus in the most realistic way possible, though ostensibly to the detriment of the film. In The Measure of a Man ( La loi du marché) by French filmmaker, Stéphane Brizé, an unemployed man is attempting to solve the riddle of nihilistic work. Humans wish to have the stability to do what they truly want, yet the machinations of time and circumstance rarely allow for such fulfillments. This narrative thread is as old as western society, where the Ancient Greek tale of Sisyphus doomed to push a boulder up a hill every day for eternity, was born. People have been shackled under the weight of meaningless labor for millenniums. In Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, a treatise about the human condition, he wrote, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” For many people the work they do is pointless, only going far enough to provide limited sustenance while killing the spirit inside which yearns to be free.
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