Marta graduated with full marks in Philosophy but now she's facing unemployment. Such is the dire state of the Italian job market, since human memory (at least mine).
Marta is a positive girl, despite her mother being sick with cancer and her boyfriend leaving her for a job in the US. Maybe slightly too positive, as she seems totally unaffected by being alone, jobless and her mother dying, but super happy to get a sort of live-in, babysitting arrangement in a dump with Sonia, a scatter-brained, single mother. Then Marta gets a job in a call centre and she's very good at it, but starts to be disturbed by the blatant dishonesty of the firm employing her.
A darker side plot involves two high ranking employees Daniela and Claudio, who bought into the corrupt system, therefore tainted beyond salvation, while Marta can still redeem herself - or sort of.
The theme is treated mainly with a light, comedic touch that is morally ambiguous. The darker side of the plot does not work exactly because the moral corruption seems to be condemned in some cases and minimised in others.
The older characters Daniela and Claudio are beyond salvation because they're older, while Marta is an ordinary, modern good girl who loves children and has little problem with her "friend" Sonia servicing customers at home while her daughter waits in the street for mummy to "finish doing her job". No moral issue, because they're young, I guess.
Under those circumstance having one's life still to be lived sounds more like a menace, but that could be the hidden sarcasm of the title.
Marta is a positive girl, despite her mother being sick with cancer and her boyfriend leaving her for a job in the US. Maybe slightly too positive, as she seems totally unaffected by being alone, jobless and her mother dying, but super happy to get a sort of live-in, babysitting arrangement in a dump with Sonia, a scatter-brained, single mother. Then Marta gets a job in a call centre and she's very good at it, but starts to be disturbed by the blatant dishonesty of the firm employing her.
A darker side plot involves two high ranking employees Daniela and Claudio, who bought into the corrupt system, therefore tainted beyond salvation, while Marta can still redeem herself - or sort of.
The theme is treated mainly with a light, comedic touch that is morally ambiguous. The darker side of the plot does not work exactly because the moral corruption seems to be condemned in some cases and minimised in others.
The older characters Daniela and Claudio are beyond salvation because they're older, while Marta is an ordinary, modern good girl who loves children and has little problem with her "friend" Sonia servicing customers at home while her daughter waits in the street for mummy to "finish doing her job". No moral issue, because they're young, I guess.
Under those circumstance having one's life still to be lived sounds more like a menace, but that could be the hidden sarcasm of the title.