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she briefly got lost on the way to the Job Centre – and she cannot feed everyone in her family nor heat their apartment. Widower Daniel, single-parent Katie and her children together face poverty and humiliation caused, says Loach, by a system that is designed, at best, to drive them into the black economy, or, at worst, to crush them completely between its robotic jaws.
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Some of what you say I agree with. The more lyrical bit is probably better left out. However, the detail about the WCA is important to understand what has happened to Daniel. I think you also have to have a sense of the
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While Daniel struggles inside a web of red tape, he meets single mother Katie and her two children, Dylan and Daisy, who to escape a homeless persons' hostel in London, take up residence 300 miles (480 kilometres) away in
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like 'portrayed a tediously drawn out box-ticking excercise'. I understand from the edit history that I'm not the only one who found this phrasing contentious given it comes off as an interpretation, despite you'd no doubt insist that's how its inherently portrayed. Worth making this more clarified.
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Daniel Blake is a 59-year-old joiner living in the North-East of
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is actually a fantastic example of a good plot summary, a long-standing featured article it is. I think I understand your point on emphasising the significance about the WCA in the film. Can we at least reword this so we're not using a strongly emotive adjective ('ludicrous') and opt for something
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Daniel has fair day-to-day function – he shops, does DIY and generally looks after himself – and does score some points at his eligibility assessment for the sickness benefit called
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I hope you understand why these changes were necessary, and thank you if you do. This isn't the worst plot summary I've seen (if it was, given things I've come across, I would've deleted this section altogether!), did my best to retain as much of the original details as possible. This article is
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This point needs to be rewritten in a way that doesn't require the reader to extrapolate plot details as to what it means to be "unseen" in spite of being "ubiqutuous". Does it mean "is not applied by the Job Centre's "decision-maker", Daniel criticises the "decision-maker" as an "unseen" figure
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Plot summaries cannot engage in a interpretation of a work. Loach's intepretation needs to be cut out and placed in a different and appropriate section (as well as referenced to a source and enclosed in double quotes) - for now, it is better to cut it out all together.
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