Original title: Jokingly expresses the voices of migrant workers in the workplace
The movie "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!" is currently in theaters! "With its in-depth observation of the workplace ecology and bitter satire, it expresses the voices of countless migrant workers and became the first dark horse film in the new year. The box office has gone through a counterattack arc and has exceeded 300 million yuan as of January 3, and the final box office is expected to exceed 1 billion yuan.
The biggest highlight of this film is that it uses comedy to capture the pain points in the workplace. Workplace comedies are rare because they are so difficult. Everyone has personal feelings about work. Once the filming is too suspended, it will be difficult to make people empathize, not to mention that it has to be funny in a real situation. The main creators of the film are almost all comedy experts: director and screenwriter Dong Runnian has participated in the screenwriting work of "Heart Blossom Road" and "Crazy Alien". The comedy films created by Dapeng in recent years have been very popular. The other starring actors are Bai Ke and Kong Lianshun. , Wang Hao, Song Muzi, etc. are comedians and talk show actors who are loved by young audiences. So many creators who are good at comedy work together to ensure that "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!" 》’s funnyness.
The structure of the film follows the route of Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden. Hu Jianlin, a senior fitter played by Dapeng, was promoted to the head office by accident when the group was downsizing. As a simple and hard-working man, he was naturally confused and full of jokes when faced with various unspoken workplace rules, but he was able to rise to the top again and again. Promotions and salary increases all the way from K7 to K11. The satirical comedy effect brought about by the misplaced identity is reminiscent of Gogol's "The Imperial Envoy".
The workplace slang from beginning to end in the film sounds friendly and creates a lot of laughter. Who hasn’t said something lofty-sounding like aligning granularity to form closed-loop underlying logic at work? Who hasn’t heard that the key to this problem for company leaders is to find the key issues and other nonsense literature that has unclear meaning? The funniest and saddest thing is the word optimization that glorifies layoffs, which becomes an important clue in the film. The top management of the company came up with the homophonic meaning of "layoffs for many people" and "finances for all". Hu Jianlin mistakenly thought that optimization equals promotion and salary increase, while the lower-level employees trembled when they heard about layoffs.
《The annual meeting cannot be stopped! 》The pain points in the workplace are explained in a down-to-earth manner. In order not to violate the eight-hour work system, overtime has become a tacit voluntary choice for everyone, and canteens, gyms, and shuttle buses encourage this kind of involution; leaders deliberately make their words vague and let subordinates figure it out, and subordinates also try to fool them. Everyone nodded and understood that a good film story may seem absurd, but behind the absurdity, people can see many shadows in life.
The encounters and final resistance of the three protagonists in the film make the film passionate while being funny. They are actually at the bottom of the workplace and bear the brunt of layoffs. Hu Jianlin is proficient in professional skills and has devoted most of his life to the factory, but it is his kind of employees who are abandoned by the company first; Ma Jie, played by Bai Ke, is more like thousands of ordinary workers, a hard-working old scalper who does not hesitate to act spontaneously in order to keep his job. Involution, I have never thought about whether this is meaningful; Pan Yiran, played by Zhuang Dafei, is an outsourcer who does both work and takes the blame. She is unwilling to flatter others and only wants to become a full-time employee based on her strength. Her idealistic temperament is quite similar to that of the post-00s generation. Clean up your workplace feel.
However, the resistance of the trio at the end of the film is somewhat naive and superficial. The problem was solved by the protagonist group's straightforward rapping output on the annual meeting stage, which impressed the chairman, and then returned to the routine of complaining. Even the end of the film was subtitled that the film was purely a joke, as if they were afraid of taking responsibility for it. The exquisite satire in the first half finally returns to the sketch-style happy ending, which is somewhat regrettable. (Author: Yuan Yuner)
