As the latest film to take on this modern financial crisis and its societal impact, The Company Men makes for an excellent companion piece to 2009’s Up In the Air. A careful and diligent character piece, John Wells’ film approaches the massive layoffs and power shifts (in Boston, circa 2008) from the view of the once successful, now unemployed – confident men with handsome features and distinguished ideals forced to reevaluate everything they thought life was meant to be. It is a movie of crisis, and more specifically, a movie of wealth in crisis. And as such it may seem not entirely appealing – who wants to watch the haves complaining about having not? Still, the movie manages to create sympathy from our empathy, concentrating not on the materials but the people who purchase them, the people who are, more or less, just like “us”.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
The Company Men (2011)
As the latest film to take on this modern financial crisis and its societal impact, The Company Men makes for an excellent companion piece to 2009’s Up In the Air. A careful and diligent character piece, John Wells’ film approaches the massive layoffs and power shifts (in Boston, circa 2008) from the view of the once successful, now unemployed – confident men with handsome features and distinguished ideals forced to reevaluate everything they thought life was meant to be. It is a movie of crisis, and more specifically, a movie of wealth in crisis. And as such it may seem not entirely appealing – who wants to watch the haves complaining about having not? Still, the movie manages to create sympathy from our empathy, concentrating not on the materials but the people who purchase them, the people who are, more or less, just like “us”.
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