a romanticised and thoroughly false vision of unemployment from a middle class artist with a comfortable upbringing . it be clear that the writer director never suffer unemployment directly and certainly have no personal experience of it . if you have to believe this absolutely ridiculous story and unemployed men of all age behave like teenager and have no anger and no fear and no frustration and etc . all the character live trough the day by carry prank and boyish joke . they do never look for work and the do almost never experience rejection or anguish and etc . living on the dole be just about like a summer vacation from school . ridiculous . specially if you compare it with contemporary masterpiece from the like of ken loach and etc .