The Measure of a Man
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 2015 |
| Country | France |
| Director | Stéphane Brizé |
| Cast | Vincent Lindon, Karine de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller, Yves Ory |
| Genre | Drama |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | The Measure of a Man | – |
| Español | – | – |
| Français | La Loi du marché | La Loi du marche |
| Deutsch | – | – |
| Português | – | – |
| Italiano | – | – |
| Русский | – | – |
| 中文(简体) | – | – |
| 中文(繁體) | – | – |
| 한국어 | – | – |
| ไทย | – | – |
| Tiếng Việt | – | – |
| Bahasa Indonesia | – | – |
| 日本語 | ティエリー・トグルドーの憂鬱 | Tierī Togurudō no Yūutsu |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which human dignity and market obedience collide within precarious labor.
■ Synopsis
An unemployed factory worker becomes a supermarket security guard and faces a moral dilemma inside the same system that has humiliated him.
■ RECIPE Tags
#HumanDignity #MarketLaw #MoralCompromise #LaborPrecarity
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Bureaucratic humiliation
Reason: The individual is reduced to procedural failure before being reduced to labor value.
Related Film: I, Daniel Blake - Middle: Survival through complicity
Reason: Employment becomes possible only by enforcing the same structure against others.
Related Film: Two Days, One Night - Core: The price of dignity
Reason: The central question is how much moral surrender is acceptable in order to remain economically alive.
Related Film: Sorry We Missed You
■ Secondary Axes
- Labor as coercive measurement: A person is evaluated by utility rather than humanity.
Related Film: Human Resources - Ethical exit from systemic obedience: Refusal becomes the last remaining form of self-possession.
Related Film: Rosetta
■ Person
- Director: Stéphane Brizé
- Cast: Vincent Lindon, Karine de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller, Yves Ory
■ Structural Tags
#SystemicCoercion #ValueReduction #MoralExit
■ Attribute Tags
#FrenchCinema #2015Film #DramaFilm


































