text/Ye Qiuchen
Because I was too busy some time ago, I never took time to watch the movie, so I regretted missing the " annual meeting can't stop!" " is the best time to watch movies.
Fortunately, the Spring Festival has not yet arrived, so I can still easily choose a show at a suitable time and place, so I quickly found time to catch up on this work.
This is one of the best domestic comedy movies I have seen in recent years. The box office has now exceeded 1.2 billion. More than 500,000 people marked it as "watched" on Douban and gave it a high score of 8.2. Its popularity and reputation are obvious to all.
Next, Ye Qiuchen will conduct an in-depth analysis from his own perspective based on the existing plot. If you have different opinions, please feel free to discuss and exchange in the comment area.
contains massive spoilers, so those who have not watched the movie should proceed with caution.
. About Dong Runnian, the director who created the film
, and also served as the screenwriter of the film.
It can be seen from his past experience that Director Dong came from a major and first entered the industry as a screenwriter, so his storytelling skills are quite solid. The number of works produced by it is not too many, "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!" " is the highest-rated film and television drama he has participated in so far.
Dong Runnian has a strong control over comedy. In 2014, his first self-written and directed drama "Things in the Harem Season 1" scored 7.8 points on Douban, while his performance in other themes was relatively average. It can be seen that this is not his area of expertise.
《The annual meeting cannot be stopped! "The overall degree of completion is very high, the laughs are quite dense and high-energy, the rhythm is particularly well controlled, and the camerawork and transitions are also quite mature. I haven't evaluated a comedy like this for a long time.
not only conveys practical significance within many limitations, but also presents it in a positive form of positive energy, achieving a rare and delicate balance under the bottleneck.
Not only that, the movie also attached itself to the popular "anti-corruption" label, and at the same time, it targeted a large group of migrant workers. It is not surprising that it can achieve such results. This operation is really well done. .
is looking forward to the next comedy written and directed by Dong Runnian. I believe it will be very amazing.
Dapeng has gained a lot in the film market in 2023. Not only did he produce "Hot" as a director, he also starred in "The Annual Party Can't Stop!" " and " the eighth suspect ", participated in "Unknown", and did dubbing work for the cartoon "Art Academy 1994", all evaluations are above the passing line, and there is also a very bright one on the transcript Eye-catching high-scoring subjects.
His acting skills can already easily control the good and bad, as well as different levels of roles, but I still think that Dapeng's rock and roll in comedy is the area where he is most comfortable. When the two are combined into one, the effect is usually quite good. .
For films like "The Eighth Suspect", the content of the scripts is not up to par with his acting skills, and is far less suitable than Dapeng's sense of adaptability in comedies.
Bai Ke was chosen so flatteringly that he felt a sense of suffocation just sitting there without speaking, as if he had been cast by a migrant worker who works every day.
's dilemma of foresight and hesitation is also accurately grasped.
Zhuang Dafei 's acting skills are a little more mature in comparison. The outsourced staff acted as the rich second generation to experience the feeling of working life. In the scene about idealism on the rooftop, the mood didn't live up to expectations at all. Her next female lead role is to co-star with Xiao Zhan in the role of Huang Rong in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" written and directed by Tsui Hark. After all, there are many gems in front of her, so it feels like it will be quite difficult to complete, so we'll wait and see.
Among the people who participated in the filming this time, the proportion of talk show actors is not small, including rock, Tong Mo Nan and carnivorous animals, etc.
Wang Hao, who came out of "Annual Comedy Competition", plays the role of young Hu Jianlin. I didn't think of it before, but after watching the movie, I realized that he really looks like Dapeng. They are quite similar.
Through this lineup, you will find that comedy must be performed by comedians, otherwise it will not taste right.
. Regarding the workplace
, one thing that makes me very emotional is that "the annual meeting cannot be stopped!" " is a movie made purely for workers. There are no messy emotional lines or censorship. Therefore, the overall viewing experience is very comfortable, neither sloppy nor greasy.
is also accurate and in place regarding the rules and pitfalls in the workplace.
For example, when dealing with newcomers, everyone is generally more polite. After all, they don’t know what their background is, so they have to test it a few times to get a feel for it before dealing with it.
Most workplace communication relies on one word, "guess".
constantly tries to figure out the intentions of all parties and interprets all the details from its own perspective.
At that time, Hu Jianlin (played by Dapeng) had just arrived, and it happened that the layoff plan was in progress.
You can come when others have left. This situation is obviously unusual.
So everyone speculated that he had a very strong connection and background.
In fact, he is just a simple and kind-hearted single middle-aged man. Even on the first day of work, he looks like he is wearing an old suit from the day he was married. He doesn't understand anything about the world.
However, a series of unusual operations confused the surrounding colleagues.
's heartfelt words when he shook hands and introduced himself were actually interpreted by Peter (played by Sun Yizhou) as an external statement of instructions from a higher level, in order to cover up others' eyes.
Misunderstandings are like snowballs, growing bigger and bigger.
Because he was in the HR department and it was a sensitive period for layoffs, Hu Jianlin frightened his colleagues during the entire practice in order to practice his ability to remember names.
"Being called by that man's name" became the most terrifying experience, and the handful of "melon seeds" handed over were over-interpreted as "the number of melon seeds is the number of brains to be cut off."
's Lenovo ability gradually diverged, and everyone began to speculate that the employees transferred from a standard parts factory happened to have no interest in other departments and could be used to implement the "layoffs and promotion" plan.
The "standards" for layoffs are set by them.
Even after being promoted from k7 to k9, it was the same when training middle-level leaders.
Obviously because Hu Jianlin was only a senior fitter before, so he was most familiar with the work of assembling parts, but in the process, everyone still understood that the "handle" of the hammer means "dad".
spread more and more outrageously, and it became that the chairman is Hu Jianlin’s father.
Guess, guess, it’s all about guessing.
Although the movie has some exaggerated operations for dramatic effect, in reality, the spread of rumors in daily life is very similar.
This kind of atmosphere is not limited to grassroots employees, but also to the leadership, perhaps even more so.
In a scene of pretending to be a leader and collecting evidence, Thomas just looked at the back, heard some dialogue about "taking care of himself", and began to make small calculations and mutter in his mind. As long as
survives in this environment and circle, it seems that it will subtly become the same.
People's energy is limited. If it is all used for intrigues and intrigues, then it will be "a hammer" for serious business.
The irony is quite strong.
. About satire
After the movie was played, it read on the screen, "This story is purely a joke. If there are any similarities, treat it with caution."
There is "joking", but it is more of a "similarity" under the resonance.
Some leaders like drinking and having fun, some subordinates who need to hand over money to do things, some people who don’t ask the truth about right or wrong and only consider their stance.
In the film, except for the "Caiyuan Guangjin" plan which was directly modified and defined as the "Layoff and Guangjin" plan, ironic details are everywhere.
Zhuang Zhengzheng (played by Wang Xun) originally gave away 300,000, and through Hou Chengshi (played by Rock), he communicated with higher-level leaders, hoping to transfer himself to the head office, with the purpose of allowing his son to attend a key middle school.
The results were layer upon layer, and the person who actually executed it didn’t even remember his name, so he transferred the wrong person by mistake, and Hu Jianlin became the lucky one.
Zhuang Zhengzheng could have made it clear to Hou Chengshi and corrected this mistake as soon as possible.
But the irony is that due to his inadvertent locking of the door, Lao Hou was locked in the refrigerated truck with Pork. This arrangement of
is wonderful and fully demonstrates what it means to "trap oneself in a cocoon".
On one side is Zhuang Zhengyi, who can't find a middleman, and on the other is Hu Jianlin, who is prospering.
By the time Zhuang Zhengzheng met Thomas directly, the best time to correct his mistakes had passed.
And the doctor said that Hou Chengshi would most likely not wake up.
If you want to hide the truth, you must make the relevant people who cannot be trusted disappear completely.
Like Thomas said, if the truth is revealed, everyone will suffer and be implicated. Making mistakes seems to be the best choice.
is a "lose-lose" decision, there is no need to make it. When
said this line, the rehearsal program for the annual meeting was "Big Transformation into a Living Person", implying that he wanted to secretly kill Zhuang Zhengzheng.
can't solve the problem, it can only solve the people who created the problem.
’s arrangement is also very good. Through details and foreshadowing, the audience can completely follow the logical chain of the characters to sort out their changes in mentality and plans.
Thomas and the others walked on two legs. While looking for someone to capture Zhuang Zhengzheng, they began to brainwash Hu Jianlin.
They began to teach three secrets of leadership.
This paragraph really feels like a talk show.
There are two actors in Carnivore, one is responsible for speaking and the other is responsible for translating what is said.
obviously speak the same language, but they can still make it difficult for the other party to understand. This is the profoundness of Chinese expression.
First, when something goes wrong, leave space for the people below and give full play to your subjective initiative.
translation: If you can't explain clearly, don't explain clearly, and let the people below figure out the leader's thoughts.
Second, show affinity and make emotional investment.
translation: Say some sweet words to make them willing to work for you.
Third, encourage everyone to encourage each other and compete in a healthy way.
translation: If they fight happily enough and form checks and balances, they will no longer be a threat to the leader, and dissatisfaction and firepower will also be transferred accordingly.
concluded by saying that it is easy to be fired as a bad employee, but it is still easy to be a bad leader.
It's ironic, super ironic.
In this company, the top management has these little things in mind. Everyone has to use the term "granularity", which is not easy to understand, to replace simple expressions such as macro and micro. HR only hopes to implement the "layoffs and expansion" plan. Let everyone resign and not pay liquidated damages.
Hu Jianlin once said that the work in the standard parts factory is much dirtier than this.
But what is dirty there is the surface, and what is dirty inside is the head office.
The dirt on the outside is easy to wipe off, but the dirt on the inside is even difficult to detect.
Isn’t it ironic?
is so ironic.
Then there is a scene that severely pokes at the 35-year-old middle-aged man. The laid-off people are preparing to cause trouble collectively, and the leader is Xu Yongsen, the leader of the technical department.
is very capable, but it still needs to be "optimized".
The principle is very simple. Others may not be as efficient and high-quality as you in the same work, but they are cheap enough. They say that three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang. If it doesn't work, just let new employees do it cheaper and they can always do it. from. The most important thing about
is to save money.
claims to be optimizing the company's structure and costs, but in fact it is all a victim of power infighting and elimination of dissidents.
The entire negotiation process of laying off Xu Yongsen was broadcast live, and the whole company was watching how to solve this difficult nut.
Hu Jianlin put the fitter guy on the table when he came on the scene. He didn't take the usual path and shocked the opponent immediately.
The chicken and the duck talked about it, and surprisingly the two sides reached a consensus. When
shook hands, Hu Jianlin said "10% salary increase", and his style suddenly changed.
Then, the sarcastic lines came again.
Isn't "optimization" a good word?
is indeed a good word, but it has been used by evil-minded people.
Everyone thought that Hu Jianlin misunderstood the meaning of "optimization", but they didn't know that he was not really wrong.
thought he was getting a box lunch, but unexpectedly received a promotion and salary increase. Xu Yongsen stood up and happily thanked the group, and the troublemaking banner around his neck became a decoration like a scarf.
There is so much violence, it is all forced by people.
Everyone seemed happy, but the results did not go as planned.
Ma Jie (played by Bai Ke) pulled the door card directly from his neck with a solemn expression.
Hu Jianlin asked: Is it hot?
Ma Jie replied: It’s cool. At the
review meeting, Thomas said that Hu Jianlin’s move was to divide the troubled masses below and solve big problems through great wisdom.
But the people who are doing the work know clearly that this is just a mistake.
Hu Jianlin has gained a lot of aura along the way, and has gradually advanced from K7 to K9 (annual salary is 1 million). It is also rumored that he has a father-son relationship with Chairman Hu Qiming, and he is sought after and courted by everyone.
Mark (played by Tong Monan), who publicly questioned him at the meeting before, offered to be Hu Jianlin's backup dancer at the annual meeting.
Although Hu Jianlin is a fake prince, others treat him as the real prince.
The actual situation is also the same.
In reality, there are "Pennys" everywhere who are harassed by Pete.
But these girls are not so lucky. They can meet Ma Jie to hold back the wine and Hu Jianlin to step up.
Most of them can only endure, compromise, and collapse.
While the company is calling for poverty and layoffs to reduce costs, it is also willing to spend 60 million to invite celebrities to stage the annual party.
Hu Jianlin asked, isn’t our company short of money?
Yeah, a correct question.
But no one dared to respond.
In the end, he came up with the answer himself.
We spend a lot of money to prove that we are rich.
Perhaps, the ending in reality will only be when Hu Jianlin changes his mind, chooses to sit in the same boat with Thomas and others, and then becomes the kind of bloated leader that workers dislike the most.
But this is a movie. Movies should be combined with reality, but they cannot be completely realistic.
Otherwise, where are the seeds of hope?
As a result, many viewers felt that the rhythm and plot here suddenly began to change.
The satirical session ended, and the flames of positive energy began to ignite.
Once the apprentices of the standard parts factory brought faulty parts, Hu Jianlin quickly realized that someone was causing trouble and passing off goods from other factories as inferior ones.
When I found the person in charge of the foundry, I learned that Zhuang Zhengzhi still owed him 400,000 yuan, which meant that the person who did the wrong thing was the chief of the supply and marketing department. The
script is written here, and it is handled very smartly and skillfully.
If Zhuang Zhengzheng did not have these additional charges, then he was just transferred to the head office through a relationship, and things would not end well.
If a villain commits two serious crimes, one of which is of a bad nature, then the result will naturally be a combination of punishment for several crimes.
The irony is that even the villain Zhuang Zhengzheng's original intention was just to arrange a good school for his son, and he became a tool and victim of the power infighting among the company's top executives.
After investigating clearly, everyone realized that the matter was serious.
Ma Jie was afraid of losing his job, so he wanted to throw away key evidence on the rooftop on the 31st floor. After all, disclosing this matter meant that the issue of misalignment would inevitably be brought to the table, which would affect the whole body. Everyone will suffer.
But the satire is over, and the flame of hope must be lit.
This is where Penny (played by Zhuang Dafei) made her speech about idealism.
Then Ma Jie, who has always been cautious and timid, also planned to be impulsive. As if suddenly enlightened, he recited "Look up to the sky and go out laughing, how can I be a Penghao person?"
means that although we will be fired and kicked out, this is the path chosen by people like us.
The world is very complicated, but there are always people who want to pursue simplicity.
Therefore, the trio decided to find other leaders to report the matter before the chairman came back.
The irony strikes again, and he happens to bump into Zhuang Zhengzheng's superior who is engaged in parts replacement, Xu Yunfeng (played by Li Naiwen).
As a person who can sit with the chairman at the annual meeting, he upholds different company development concepts.
In the Internet era, if you don’t transform, you will be eliminated.
In fact, what he said is right, but please don't change the concept secretly. Killing the standard parts factory with 300 people is just to weaken the power of the chairman.
After all, that's where he made his fortune, and there may be many inside stories that we don't know about.
Faced with Hu Jianlin’s idealistic suggestion of overcoming difficulties together, Mr. Xu said something more realistic.
Are the remaining employees really willing to cut their salaries to keep others? In the
era, there is always someone behind the wheel to increase friction.
This is called human nature. If there are more people in
, there will be more competition.
The idealized world will never be achieved.
In order to dispel their thoughts of continuing to complain, Mr. Xu gave the trio conditions that they thought were tempting enough.
Hu Jianlin was promoted to K11, Ma Jie was promoted to team leader, and Penny could become a full-time employee.
Frankly speaking, this proposal is too ill-advised.
has no chance of being exciting.
As a result, the two sides formed a situation of grabbing key evidence. Mr. Xu and the others actually used their mobile phones to conduct layoffs on the spot. Some people think that it is unreasonable to arrange for Hu Jianlin to go through the system before he can be officially laid off. In fact, as the leader of HR, his departure should be completed by someone with higher-level authorization. He also has the right to approve the resignation of other employees, so this is the understanding. Not too forced.
Mr. Xu was about to fire all three people. Seeing that he was weak and the righteous side was about to lose, people from the standard parts factory came to join the group fight.
effectively bought time for Hu Jianlin and others.
Revelations of this level can only be effective if they are brought to the chairman of the board.
Then it was a wild run, going against the grain and asking for help from an outsourcer after running out of energy (it felt like the scene was entirely added to make the character Penny valuable). At the
annual meeting, the dance performed by the outsourced staff and the host's speech were both ridiculously slow, and the progress was finally delayed until they arrived.
Some people said this rap performance was tasteless, but when Ye Qiuchen saw these lyrics while watching the movie, he actually wanted to cry.
actually did not think of himself, but recalled the New Oriental Annual Meeting that year.
Coupled with the previous turmoil, I suddenly felt that people's hearts are complicated and unpredictable, and I deeply sympathized with them.
A video of Zhuang Zhengzheng talking about cheating, a rap performance worthy of ridicule, plus the song "My Future Is Not a Dream", which contains the lyrics "Your future is not a dream".
The atmosphere has reached this point, and the place is boiling. Chairman
must stand up and take a stand no matter what.
Insert here his original intention of not wanting to lay off workers from the annual meeting of the standard parts factory, which happened to be overheard by the young Hu Jianlin.
The line here is subtitled - the annual meeting cannot be stopped! Cheer everyone up.
The two of them whispered at that time that this was the truth.
If you say it now in front of all employees, is it still true?
He said that he would definitely find out and those who should not be laid off would not be fired. These two sentences of
are very interesting. They solve the existing problems without adding additional burden to the company.
After all, he didn’t say he would bring back those laid off employees, right?
The middle management is gone, just hire and promote other people.
will never lack people who want to climb up.
The standard parts factory is a big deal, because its products are basically supplied to other internal companies, and the prices are not low. If such fat meat did not involve a power struggle and attached the meaning of its place of origin, it would not be touched at all. It is impossible for the chairman to be completely innocent and uninformed about such important decisions, and his consent was never forced.Authorizing Hu Jianlin to sign and agree was just to intensify conflicts among factory personnel.
just proves the third tip of leadership in the movie.
When senior leaders manage, the best way is to put pressure on grassroots employees through middle-level leaders, direct the problem to conflicts between middle-level and grassroots, and then pretend to be unaware.
This is the usual tactics and methods used by leaders.
In the end, the prime minister could only be sacrificed to preserve the emperor.
. About the lines
During the entire movie watching process, almost all the lines that left the deepest impression on Ye Qiuchen came from Ma Jie.
When he introduced the company to Hu Jianlin, he showed him the canteen, gym, swimming pool and other facilities.
Food and drink are free, and the environment is spacious and bright.
Hu Jianlin's feelings are always simple and direct - so comfortable, is this still work?
The more livable the company environment is, the more overtime hours employees have to work.
seems to be a benefit, but it is actually a constraint.
If you don’t leave, you will always come back to work.
Sure enough, the following scene turned to employees working overtime.
Ma Jie found a good excuse to work overtime. He didn't have to spend his own electricity bill to play on the computer. He was not alone anywhere.
What about the family? What about friends? What about life? What about yourself?
are all lost.
The people sitting next to her were, as Penny said, not friends at all, but mostly colleagues.
applies and adapts the lines in the movie to evaluate it. It’s not that everyone knows nothing about the current situation, but as far as I know, they have nothing to do.
always has some underlying rules to follow.
Ma Jie also has many golden words about leadership.
Leaders always have more important things to do.
His ability to be a leader shows that he is capable.
Leaders are both wise and foolish.
is reasonable as long as it exists.
The sentence that impressed me most was comparing leadership to a train.
The train all relies on the headband. If every carriage has its own idea, the train will derail.
Does this still need to be expanded?
I believe that all migrant workers know the meaning behind these words.
. Regarding the laugh points
I am a person with a relatively low laugh point, so there are many interesting places.
For example, when Hu Jianlin heard that his annual salary was much higher than expected, he quickly took out his mobile phone and recorded it as evidence.
doesn't know English, so what he writes down in his notebook is "English" in Chinese form.
accidentally got the English name john, and his nickname can also be johnny.
Coincidentally, "Zhuang Ni" and "Zhuang Zhengzheng" have the same surname, so they managed to get away with changing their identities.
When I lived in the model apartment for 3 months, I found the cup stuck to the table and I poured it into it and drank it horizontally. The environment of
was luxurious, so I was looking for someone to video chat with, and the topic was boring and I just kept chatting. After all, happiness came too suddenly.
Dapeng's performance is quite lifelike and really amazing.
Then Ma Jie discovered the fact that the wrong person had been transferred, but he was afraid that he would lose his job, so he tried to cover it up for Hu Jianlin.
Whenever there is a job, Ma Jie will take the initiative to avoid exposing the secret.
A job like this that pays you for doing nothing is a dream state for many people.
Really idle, Hu Jianlin found that the office light was broken, so he took the initiative to return to his old job, and under Penny's prompting, he planned to remember people's names through practice.
In the environment of major layoffs, the new employee in the employee relations department called everyone he met in various places in the company by name, and also mentioned keywords like "list".
People are panicking. "Do you dare to agree to my name?" It has become a curse.
Everyone wanted to please Hu Jianlin without paying too much cost, so they piled the apples and food distributed in the cafeteria on the table.
This scene was filmed in a tight rhythm and the plot was so funny that I was out of breath laughing.
Another hilarious point is when the chairman comes to inspect the training of middle-level employees.
Rumors have been circulating that the chairman and Hu Jianlin are father and son, but in public the two seem to have no intersection.
Everyone was muttering in their hearts. Hu Jianlin ran out to say hello to the chairman. The content shown in the silhouette was exactly the picture of a loving father and a filial son. There was even an extremely intimate interaction like touching the head.
When Hu Jianlin came back to say hello, everything was different. Everyone was willing to become employees of the "standard parts factory". After
started preparing for the annual meeting, it was basically in a plot state. Only what Ma Jie said, "Don't sue until the annual meeting is over, at least draw the prize" made me feel quite interesting.
Finally, I really wanted to watch the performance of "Learning to Meow" by k11 executives, but it's a pity that the movie didn't give me the chance.
. About the ending
"The annual meeting cannot be stopped!" "The finale seems to be a happy ending, but through some heart-wrenching details in the story, we can figure out and reconstruct another hidden ending.
On the surface, Hu Jianlin returned and became the deputy director of the factory, Ma Jie was promoted and raised his salary by two levels to K10, and Penny chose to resign and pursue her dream with her guitar after becoming a full-time employee. What about
actually?
Most people probably don’t understand this ending at all.
Hu Jianlin became the deputy director of the factory. Although it was the most suitable destination for him, it told everyone a cruel fact-capable and conscientious leaders can only stay in a simple interpersonal environment such as a small factory.
Penny said that the world is so big and she wanted to be rebellious, so she participated in the audition for "I Want to Hear You Sing".
's name is homophonic to "rebellion", and she is indeed doing rebellious things.
can enter the entertainment industry and is still chosen, and it is still chosen by this entertainment industry, which is more complicated than the workplace.
is just a small and transparent outsourcer in the workplace, but will he have resources and connections in the entertainment industry?
Reality is not a movie.
So this content is presented on a black screen and processed with background sound, and some results cannot be said.
The staged plot is not the whole truth. The hidden ending is most likely that she has the courage to pursue her dream but has no chance to realize it.
The person who was promoted and raised two levels in a row was Ma Jie, the most obedient person ever.
At any time, obedience is the best factor in choosing subordinates and confidants.
The type of people who stay in the head office has never changed. During
’s rap performance, only Ma Jie sang while looking at the screen of his mobile phone.
You can say that he forgot, or you can understand that it is conveying to the outside world that this is a word written by someone else, not his original intention.
The most important thing is that 90% of the employees have been laid off, so this is not a complete happy reunion at all, it is just a small reunion to whitewash peace.
The darker reality is that all 35-year-old "Xu Yongsen" have been forced to leave the company. They lack the salary to support their families and have to squeeze out the last remaining value before leaving.
If this were not a movie, Xu Yongsen would certainly not be able to escape this fate.
There is probably only one plot that is both absurd and true, that is, all the laid-off employees yelled at the HR and told them how difficult it was for them, but they still could only get a cold dismissal notice in exchange.
The nature of the world is very cruel, and movies only beautify the reality.
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