The film tells us about the ordinary life of such a clerk Peter, a programmer who works for the company and his friends. He hates his job, which doesn’t give him a boost or promotion. He's pissed off by his boss forcing him to work on weekends, and he's just a Psveshnik.
He has personal and life problems in general. He wants to change everything.
His friends: Michael Bolton, a programmer who is the namesake of a famous singer and who is constantly pestered by the question of whether they are relatives and the Arab Samir Nayinanajad, who in principle is happy but infuriates that no one can pronounce his name.
Milton, the downtrodden worker everyone wipes their feet over. They make him constantly move his desk, brazenly take away his belongings and in general he was fired as early as 5 years ago but because of a mistake in the program he still receives a salary and threatens to set fire to the fucking office.
And one day, during a hypnotherapy session with his girlfriend, Peter is hypnotized into complete relaxation and calmness, and then the hypnotist dies. When he wakes up the next day, he cares nothing more, his main dream of doing nothing begins to come true.
He finally meets a girl he has long wanted to meet. She works at a restaurant where Pitra and his friends come to dine. Her boss is almost as dumb as Peter's boss. He constantly finds fault with the number of "mood badges" she wears. She wears a minimum of 15, which the boss doesn’t like, and he constantly compares her to a hyperactive colleague who wears 37. In the end, the boss will effectively be sent with the middle finger.
He's starting to live a full life. But here's the bad luck, the office begins to make cuts and Peter's friends are fired, and he himself is promoted to boss. Peter considers this a monstrous injustice and together with Michael and Samir, he decides to teach the company a lesson and earn money.
It's funny to play around with standard office situations, like when you have eight bosses and because of the slightest mistake, each of them will come and tell you about it. Absolutely useless positions. Peter's work, for example, is a fix in the ONE ONE Date Writing Error code. So is a poorly working fax, the scene of the destruction of which became a cult and even played out in the Griffins.
This is a funny and easy comedy, which I recommend to everyone, since the topics on which jokes are clear to everyone and the very situation of routine and obsessive work is also familiar to everyone.
8 out of 10
"Oh, that's cool." It's a movie from the creator of Beavis and Butt Head! - that's how many people should rattle with delight? And it is already known to assume that the author of stories about two idiots (and what else to call?) in any way made a cool film? It's not, it's not. Although, I confess that at school age, the morning began with the inclusion of the MTV channel on the TV, where fifteen minutes showed a new cartoon about the couple. But I watched, I will add, so as not to be a white crow in the class, where everyone watched Beavis and Butt Head, and sometimes with a sinking heart, I watched rare video clips of cult groups Slayer and Iron Maiden (what to do, this is my musical taste since childhood), which were occasionally shown in the form of music inserts in the cartoon. But every child psychiatrist will tell about the impact of Beavis and Butt Head on the development of children to anyone with anger in their voice.
And some sites claim that “Office space” from Mike Judge over time acquired the status of a cult movie. Reading this, at least, is ridiculous, because the cult films record those paintings that have either become genre-forming, or over time do not become obsolete and are a sample of relevance, or have an impact on the formation of some subculture. The subculture of office "plankton" that Mike Judge brought out in a parody-dull style? Rather, it is not a subculture, but a collection of complete losers (the most terrible insult to the American nation, as you can solve from many films of different genres, even diametrically different), narrow-profile, living boring and normalized. Then where's the conflict? Where's the provocation? Judge mocked his American tribesmen (the director himself, however, was born in Ecuador), and those, opening their mouths, say still that he, they say, made a film about us.
Maybe about them, but not us. I can safely attribute myself to the same office “plankton”, but “Office Space” is directly aimed at the American form of such work in the conditions of a limited territory of a separate building, but in our realities the film does not look anywhere near. Judge didn't try to do that, so why is the movie suddenly being given cult status? The only thing I can agree with the film Office Space is that there are actually several bosses sitting over each individual employee of the junior level, who, such a feeling, are only engaged in poking all subordinates with some kind of service, orders, innovations. And creative managers (as John C. McGinley portrayed in the film) with their trainings are more like cunning tricksters than the guru of their strange profession. All the rest of the “Office space” is mockery, mockery and once again mockery.
Look at poor Milton (Stephen Root), based on the short films about which this film was published. He is clearly unbalanced, the fear of losing his job drives him crazy, he is being fired, although he has long been fired, Milton has some unimaginable fetish about stationery, especially staplers. He's a mental health client, but he works for a big company. Is that normal? This is a mockery of employers and a screen mockery of their employees. The main character played by Ron Livingstone is completely uninteresting, well, he rebelled against the system and what next? Turned your world around? Well, well done, how many of these in a more decent movie, and the play of Ron Livingston faded, he would be happy to play better, but where does this come from, if the actor is clearly secondary? Jennifer Aniston wasn't as annoying, annoyed by her work at the cafe. This idea with badges and highlights is crazy. For the fiftieth time I should have seen the inscriptions on the T-shirts of one of the characters from the Ten-inch Hero. And all the remaining characters of the film are not happy.
In general, a dull parody of office workers in a large company that failed: first, the characters are too stuffed with stereotypes, and their actors leave much to be desired with their performance. Mike Judge, the very creator of those same Beavis and Butt Head, made a mockery, not a sane laugh at the office “plankton” and their management.
3 out of 10
What a versatile genius Mike Judge is. Who the author of the already legendary “Beavis and Butthead” was just not: an animator, artist, producer, screenwriter, actor, director, and after watching this film I thought that he was also a psychologist and sociologist not weak.
The film is a pranking of the typical “grey everyday life” of an ordinary person who spends half his life at a job he doesn’t like, but naturally went there for money. And then he becomes indifferent to her and begins to live for his own pleasure. I think this is absolutely the right life position. Every man must live for himself, and not for the sake of his work, especially his unloved. Most importantly, he didn’t regret his decision! It should be.
I really liked the unusual acting (for it you need to watch the film in the original, besides, there is no normal translation), the intonation of each hero (which stands out and is remembered) is simply amazing, it directly conveys all the dullness of working life. And Milton is amazing, I wanted to see him more and more in the film.
And I can’t help but mention the legendary scene with the printer who was “revenged” – one of the best beating scenes in the history of cinema.
I recommend this film to everyone, it made me not only laugh well, but also think. It’s time for me to read the rest of Mike’s filmography.
10 out of 10
At the heart of "Office space" familiar to many problem - unloved, boring work, which, nevertheless, you have to go regularly. How can you change your life? The hero of the film has a decision.
The storyline is simple, but interesting. But humor is not enough. The life of office plankton is extremely rich in jokes, the potential of which the filmmakers did not use. Unfortunately, it could have been much funnier. Meanwhile, there are really witty moments in the film. Such as taking out and beating a printer or an operation to introduce a virus.
The acting, though at a satisfactory level, but no more. I would like to note only Stephen Root, who perfectly played the downtrodden poor Milton, and John McGinley, everyone known for the role of Dr. Cox from the Clinic.
As a result, we have a worthy one-time viewing film, from which, nevertheless, you can take something useful. Therefore deserved
"Office Space" is a 1999 American crime comedy. The movie was good and positive and I liked it. His story is original, and it is shot in an interesting and peculiar American atmosphere. We see the main character, who after hypnosis changed dramatically and became a completely different person. He gets involved in a criminal case and fraud, and we see a funny story filled with wit and various comic moments.
The cast was nice, so the movie caught my attention. Ron Livingston is a good and interesting actor, and at one time he was a charming and attractive man, and I loved his movies. In this comedy, he played well and in the main role looked decent. The heart of this film was the charming and sweet American actress Jennifer Aniston. She’s a talented actress, and I’ve loved the star of Friends for a long time, and it was a pleasure to see her in this movie. The duet of these actors was pleasant and beautiful. With a budget of 10 million dollars, Americans shot a good and peculiar comedy, which has its own surprises and a funny criminal history. This film was a slight nostalgia for me and left a pleasant impression. Just look at Jennifer Aniston in this comedy - she is charming and it is impossible to look away from her.
Office building. A huge corporation. Heaps of cogs in a bureaucratic machine. Infinite clerks and small employees.
This is all the background to the narrative. The story of three such "cogs." Peter Gibbons, Michael Bolton and a black guy named Samir Naihinnajad. They are tired of their dull monotonous work. The first, as far as I remember, checks the folders so that they lie in a certain order, the second, monitors the installed equipment, and the third, a black guy, is generally engaged only in printing documents and goes through two offices to pull out the finished paper, which can not come out of the “pascud” printer properly. He has to go back to the computer, send it back to print, and so on. By a certain coincidence, the guys decide to radically change their lives, namely, to clean the office. .
The plot, of course, is extremely schematic – for these hour and a half, something will happen that is quite difficult to describe briefly, and certainly not convey and draw these colorful characters.
Speaking of which,
Peter Gibbons (a very mediocre work by Ron Livingston) A typical office worker, who does not face not only any increase, but even a salary increase is not expected.
I'm coming to work. I spent the first half an hour looking at the ceiling. Then I start working. - says the main character and adds, - I will move a lot of folders or little - my salary will not be more or less. Why should I try? I’m annoyed that every Monday, everyone says to him: “It looks like you have Monday syndrome.”
Michael Bolton. The same young man doing some inconspicuous work like erasing two zeros that are added automatically in some archives. It is told very superficially, and that is not the point. He has the misfortune of being the namesake of a famous singer. Every person who knows his name says, "Michael Bolton?" Are you not related to a famous musician?
Very revealing line with their black friend.
Naihinnajad! Naihinnajad! Why can't anyone in this country repeat my name?
- You're not Michael Bolton.
He played the role of Gary Cole perfectly. The role of company president. His character is also brilliantly written out. He is not so much angry or principled as impossible boring, nasty, talking very slowly, coming up with some idiotic "pseudo-creative" ideas like "Day of Hawaiian T-shirts" or "Thursday of denim shorts." His constant attribute is his mug of coffee, which he keeps absolutely in every scene.
At one time, I had the opportunity to work in such a huge company and there is nothing worse than the disgraced routine, monotony. The same people come. They say the same words. Everyone is dressed the same. Days go by day. No sign of a change of scenery. In cinema there are pictures, for the most part serious, reflecting just a similar problem - the desire for sharp and radical changes in their lives.
In the end, the film ends quite original. I recommend everyone to watch.
