A previous piece by Amos Kollek about the dark side of metropolitan life: loneliness, unemployment, homelessness, hopelessness. This movie is a portrait of a woman (Sue) in her mid-thirties. Sue is lonely, has no job and cannot afford to pay the rent of her apartement. Her efforts to find friends, to find a partner or to find a job gradually fail. She gets to an unstoppable downward spiral and at the end of the movie we see her sitting on a bench in a hopeless situation, totally depressed and lost. I have seen several movies with similar stories: what makes this one different is that it on emphasizes Sue's personal responsibility in her life: she gets several chances throughout the story but cannot grab them. The real reason of her fall is not her financial situation or her joblessness, but her inability to find proper relationships. If society is responsible for Sue's fate (and I do think it has a share in it), then this responsibility lies somewhere deep in the roots of our society, the way we all think about our relations towards other people.
Review of Sue
