“Invisible”, Netflix
Zanzi is a house cleaner in a city in South Africa. Her husband Max has a criminal record and is in prison for murder. Her son Asolo died in tragic circumstances. Max is released from prison and disappears before she even has time to meet him, and Zenzi goes looking for him. On her way she encounters criminal organizations and another unexpected thing happens to her: she kills people without meaning to.
She doesn’t want to kill them. They try to hurt her and she has no choice but to shoot one, push another under the subway wheels and so on. In these circumstances – the absence of her husband, and the killings forced upon her, Zanzi is sad. Zanzi is sad all the time. Her eyes are lowered to the ground in sadness, she walks from place to place in sadness, she wears a permanent look of sadness on her face, and no matter how much the viewer accepts her sadness with understanding and patience, after a not long time the matter begins to tire.
She never smiles, she is not happy, she knows how to bring out the bad and the sad in every situation, and even though the plot she gets into is interesting, the constant sadness on her face starts to get sad – or at least makes the viewer sad himself. It takes quite a bit of patience to watch this sad sadness.
see or give up: You can see, take it patiently, with digits and a glass of water on the side.