What the hell was that all about?! She's at the food bank, she's desperately hungry... We get it, but how on earth did she think that she would get away with 'stealthily' opening a tin of baked beans and pouring them into/eating them from her hand? There were bananas right in front of her which would've been a much easier and more sensible option.
shareI dunno, I suppose if you're starving yourself so your kids can eat instead; at some point you don't care about keeping up appearances at the food bank and you may just break down and gulp a tin of baked beans?
It was her tin of baked beans, she had it in her carrier bag only moments before. And maybe she knew that baked beans were more filling and nutritious than any fruit?
Why are you here if you haven't seen the movie yet?
Just further melodramatic nonsense, nothing more.
I'd like to know when either the director or the 'screenwriter' actually signed on or used a food bank.
Islington bubble pap.
I'd like to know when either the director or the 'screenwriter' actually signed on or used a food bank.
We get it, but how on earth did she think that she would get away with 'stealthily' opening a tin of baked beans and pouring them into/eating them from her hand?
What a stupid moronic question. When you witness poverty fist-hand perhaps, then and only then would you understand perhaps (although in the OP's case I highly doubt it). Perhaps she should have carried a tablespoon to save herself the humiliation when she was tired, drained and starving that she couldn't think properly, eh?
shareNo, she could've just eaten something else that was right there in front of her... Like a banana. I'm just saying, out of all that food why choose the messiest and hardest to eat option?!
shareThis scene was based on actual events. It happened to a woman in a food bank in Glasgow.
Precisely. One of my friends who volunteers as a food bank has witnessed similar scenarios very close to real-life Katies stuffing themselves due to hunger. The way the OP is trying to logic about less-messy food to save face shows he missed the point of what's actually happening around the UK when it comes to the poverty and parents starving themselves to ensure their kids can eat.
shareOn the tins with the ring pulls, there are no sharp edges, and so the easiest way to get the beans out would be to tip it straight up to your mouth and cut out the middle man. However, when you think about subliminal messaging, tipping something up to your mouth suggests coarseness, like people who eat while walking along the street. Whereas scrabbling around with your hands for food suggests desperation. So I see these scenes as kind of more allegorical thank necessarily keeping up the deep realism.
Of course it could be that when someone is hungry in the extreme and possibly feeling faint or any other number of side affects, it may affect their ability to think logically.
I have often heard people complain about those on benefits having children just so they can get the extra money the state dishes out, so it is hard when you are comfortable to know which extremes to believe sometimes.
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Thank you to everyone in this thread who explained and defended this scene. It was certainly one of the most poignant scenes I've come across in 2016 cinemal
shareShe said she felt faint, she just opened the first thing she had in her bag.
shareMaybe she'd been in the army! Plenty of soldiers in Northern Ireland had to eat cold baked beans from a tin. :)
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