's new film "The Annual Party Can't Stop" is probably the most resonant blockbuster during the New Year's Eve. Its expression perfectly matches the emotional undercurrent of 2023. Everything that needs to be said is said, which is quite "lucky scene" A high-end style of writing about sorrow. In the past, the hardest hit area for domestic entertainment film and television productions was workplace dramas. The important reason is that the screenwriters seem to have never worked before, and their understanding of companies, offices, and workers is either a foot in the wind, or they depict low-income people in a serious way. The sight of the Colosseum made the workers like me angry and funny. But this time I am very grateful to the director Dong Runnian. I deeply doubt whether he lurked in a big factory and actually worked, so he wrote the real daily life of a big factory that can only be shown by installing a monitor.
In order to explain the complex professional titles and hierarchical relationships in the group, the director did not use clumsy methods to rely on people's words. He just took a screenshot of the email. The send and cc were clear, and the reporting relationship was clear at a glance. The protagonist Hu Jianlin (played by Dapeng) is like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden. Using his perspective to panoramically scan, the group building is divided into "eighteen floors of purgatory" through scenes such as workstations, canteens, tea rooms, and employee leisure areas. It seems that Exquisite and gorgeous, in fact, no matter the senior management or the grassroots, each has its own purgatory. The relationship is there, the scene is there, but it’s not interesting enough. Behind the words is the breath of the soul. The "layoffs" that are obviously not happy are packaged into a strategic policy to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and forge ahead, called the "Guangjin Plan." This reminds me that in real life, there are large companies that euphemistically call it "graduation." ". At least one-third of the movie is devoted to pulling the real workplace out of its embarrassment in the narrative process of "making mistakes." This time, the audience looked through the eyes of Lao Hu, who came to the provincial capital with a hammer and a wrench, and their eyes were full of absurdity. This is to use the "old ghosts" of the old state-owned factories to deal with the "new ghosts" of the Internet, and fight fire with fire.
Lao Hu is very familiar with the products of his "parent's" standard parts factory. He can memorize hundreds of screw models by heart. He knows the details and taste of every screw, nut and nut, and can even put it in his mouth to taste the toughness. Therefore, whether it is the greasy workers in the factory or the white-collar workers with exquisite makeup in the office building, programmers typing on the keyboard, outsourcing employees jogging around, etc., including those small leaders with five or six people, and some pretentious executives . In the eyes of capital, they are all screws, and the only difference is whether they are of sufficient standard and quality. Tools are tools, and tools have no right to question systems and processes. Standard parts are a metaphor for people, and the destiny of tools is to operate as directed. The annual meeting is a metaphor for relationships. The "annual meeting" that really cannot be stopped is actually a "meeting." The small meetings at the general meeting are held openly and secretly, and the business conducted at the meeting is actually a battle of interests.
Lao Hu broke the unspoken rule of "meeting": Never volunteer for the benefit of others. This is not a professional, this is a superhero. "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop" is a superhero fairy tale about the workplace. Lao Hu and his two colleagues finally uncovered the bugs in the company with their passion and won fair respect and praise from the chairman. The ability of the New Year's Eve comedy ends here and cannot be given so much. The sharp expressions died down in the noisy and joyful last scene. Anyway, the emotions have been vented and the laughter has been enough. Many people will still have to commute and clock in tomorrow, day after day.
What is worth clicking is that the actor who plays the chairman is Ouyang Fenqiang, the actor who played Jia Baoyu in the 1987 version of "Dream of Red Mansions". Jia Baoyu was the one who hated the imperial court the most, and believed that it was intolerable for men to be promoted to official positions. In the film, he becomes the most powerful controller of the group and can only face all ordinary employees in the annual meeting scene. In a sense, Jia Baoyu ended up living the person he hated the most, his father Jia Zheng, which is homophoned as "prude". Relying on the chairman to achieve fairness and balance may be the only way this movie can understand the unspeakable black humor.
