The Measure of a Man / La Loi du marché (2015)

Film Summary: A harsh realistic French drama following Thierry, a man in his fifty-first year who has been unemployed for over a year and a half. After a series of demeaning interviews and fruitless retraining programs, he finally finds work as a security guard at a supermarket. But his job requires him to spy on fellow employees (who steal small items out of poverty) to report and fire them.

Economic Insight: The film carefully studies the concept of "Precarious Employment" and the mechanisms of "Free Market Dynamics" that treat human resources as interchangeable commodities. It reflects how economic recession forces individuals to abandon their moral principles for economic survival, and demonstrates the high psychological cost of unemployment in midlife.