Oh, irony of the programming. In the talk shows m and On 1 Tuesday discussed the judgment of the Supreme Court that the state will probably have to repay large amounts of wealth tax levied in box 3 to savers – something that in practice will mainly benefit the older generations. The contrast with programs about youth on the other channels was sharp. This is how the first episode of Out of the red (KRO-NCRV), in which Edson da Graça young people assists for those who think ‘box 3’ at most of a storage system because they are held hostage by a negative capital.
Out of the red is a kind Four hands on one belly, but with debt. The 25-year-old Mert (26,000 euros in debt) was linked to an entrepreneur who, in his Happy Tosti business, mainly helps people “with distance to the labor market” into work. Mert came from far: he had been homeless for a while, spent hours at Schiphol because it is warm there, you can charge a telephone and the internet is free.
Mert soon turns out to be one of those guys who gets things done, but with whom things keep going wrong. He lands a job in telephone sales, but falls short of his targets. A man who has promised him a room suddenly stops answering the phone and then texts an excuse. In the meantime, Mert takes Da Graça to his old neighborhood in Den Helder. “This is where it all started,” he says in the tone of a superstar who gives the vice president of his fan club a tour. In reality, what’s started is a dealing stepfather with loose hands, wrong friends, casino visits, smoking weed – the whole package.
Just as lovable as Mert is twenty-year-old Kimberley, who lost her mother at eighteen and had no idea how to keep a household book in all the grief: “All I thought about was buying things.” She dreams of a creative profession, most of all she wants to be a tattoo artist, but at the end of the episode she was inconsolable because she was not accepted into the trauma therapy for which she had been on the waiting list for a year.
Just the Stampers
There is rot in the system, was also the opinion of the group of young people who squatted buildings in Amsterdam from 2017 and preached the great anti-capitalist revolution. System change! Filmmaker Dikla Zeidler (37) saw the uprising that her own generation could never have embraced and decided to capture the group in the short film. documentary The children of Møkum, and me (BNNVARA). The youngsters receive their filming guest with the drawling self-righteousness that often occurs in Amsterdam youth. A new accommodation is made habitable with diligence and energy, concerts are organised, a part of the city comes back to life.
But over the months, Zeidler puts more and more meetings which discusses the need for a new meeting. When the power is cut, the Mokum children are stiff in their sweaters, the fighting spirit seeps from the group and one after the other leaves the building in search of a real home and a real job. The director shares her disappointment with the young people, but they are now fully put into perspective. “We were like Thumpers. To some, it seemed like a slumber party that lasted a few months.”
At the end of the film we see two girls sitting on a sidewalk. “I think that if you just have ideals, it is also a bit underestimated how much effort it takes to do something with them.” Meanwhile, her friend puts her weary head on her shoulder – we continue to dream of a generation of young people who system change past the slumber party.
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