Abstract
Ken Loach’s award-winning movie “I, Daniel Blake” has been in the centre of the political debate in the United Kingdom. The film depicts the hardships a joiner and a single mother must endure when facing the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of the benefits system and its draconian sanctions regime. This paper explores the movie and its placement in Loach’s filmography and posits that it is a strong text mastery presented in the form of art to contest austerity Britain. The most relevant aspects of the film are highlighted (beware of the spoilers), Loach’s work is contextualised and the movie´s main topics are read in the bigger picture, as discussed by the work on austerity of some of the leading scholars from the fields of politics, sociology and economics. Ultimately, the paper proposes to read the film as a call for citizens’ rights over the outcomes of market.
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