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“Inequalities in a pandemic” make the most of the setting of the scenery and the art of lighting to create the images – Screenshot
The Special Economic magazine entitled “Inequalities in the pandemic” has attracted special attention from the audience by telling a strange economic story.
Program of the Center for Production and Development of Digital Contents (VTV Digital), Vietnam Television Station; is broadcast on digital VTV platforms, it continues to receive the attention of a large audience.
A real movie about the time we live
If inequality is a mathematical proposition that contains variables, then COVID-19 and the socio-economic situation of Vietnam, as well as that of the world in the last year, are such a form.
“In 2020, humanity is locked in an invisible tunnel, interspersed with countless crossroads. What escape route between options?
Economy or people, close the door or open the door, leave what and keep what? The decisions are unprecedented, but must be made immediately based on predictions, beliefs and calculations. “
At that inaugural roundabout, the show directly raised questions that countries had to grapple with.
Without a host, free of dry metrics and performance reports like the usual recaps, the show’s 50-minute documentary reworked the economic landscape, beset by the COVID-19 epidemic more than a year ago.
There, the destiny of each person, each family, each business … is placed in a central position to count its own “variable”.
Ms Hue, one of the 4,000 workers at Hue Footwear Joint Stock Company (HCMC), was fired for translating COVID-19 – Screenshot
“Variables” say
The program is divided into 4 parts: the employee has difficulties due to job loss; Public health or economic health; Multilevel Fundraising Matrix 4.0 and Reverse Migration for Livelihoods.
Everywhere there are images of people trying to find ways to escape a pandemic.
When opening the episode, each piece of life passes as a poetic and vibrant piece. Ms. Nguyen Thi Hue, a former Hue Leather Shoe Joint Stock Company (Ho Chi Minh City) worker, bareheaded, passed through her old company after the shock of losing her job at the age of forty and tears from nostalgia. I can ‘I’m going home (because I have no money).
Anh Anh (a self-employed worker, from Quang Ngai) sits down to earn 8 million dong for a month. On each finger, part of the rent, part of the food and money sent home. I don’t know where my life will go tomorrow.
Mr. Nguyen Nhu Nam, director of a travel agency in Da Nang, was training to be a restaurant chef after letting the workers quit because he could no longer bear the burden.
Or the image of Nguyen Thanh Tu (33 years old) struggling to find a job every day, selling coffee at night to earn money to pay the rent. The village of new workers in the afternoon was crowded because they could no longer work overtime.
Even the repatriation dreams of Ms. Chhim Sree, Mr. Chau Dien in An Phu Commune, Tinh Bien District, An Giang Province … also left a feeling of pity. Uninsured anomalies. Never knowing until the old days?
COVID-19 originated from a non-economic problem, triggered by natural disasters, but it focused on people, especially the poor. Looks, silhouettes and hearts unfold naturally in front of the camera. Nothing can stop the tears.
“Losing their jobs has caused many workers to become disoriented, making them a reluctant marathon runner in races that have not yet finished the finish line.”
From the queue of people queuing to apply for unemployment benefits in front of the Ho Chi Minh City Employment Center, the lens closed in the foreground and then expanded to the lines of people waiting for benefits across the world. From money to food. Not only in developing countries, but also in major economies.
The metrics, the talking statistics, are selective. Personal stories are cleverly incorporated into global stories.
Movies that strip human beings, especially workers, people in difficult circumstances during the pandemic: the economy’s workforce is being submerged and forgotten. COVID-19, the jerky virus, eats them every day.
According to WHO, an average of 3 cases per second, a person dies from a pandemic every 15 seconds – Screenshot
Dream in a quagmire
Economic activity is affected. Businesses and companies fell into a “clinical death” despite the fact that the international media leading the investigation praised Vietnam as one of the fastest growing countries in the world in 2020 (2.91%).
Many differences, “Inequality in a pandemic” does not reveal what everyone knows. More than 50 minutes of episode are more than 50 minutes of direct, opposite and selective gaze.
“The pandemic has created a curve for the future. From workers leaving the streets to return to their places of origin, to much more important things like the way economies operate.”
More than the superficial story, the episode shows a new perspective: a social perspective of the economy. There, the elements that composed it trembled in their own quagmire.
At the same time, project the decisions to make this economy work and preserve; and whatever, also for being human and human-oriented.