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A very real depiction of losing your job
PostedJanuary 23, 2011
LenC55
from Eastchester, NY
In 1982 I was a 37 year old mid level manager, and after 10 years with my company, I walked into work one August morning and was asked to leave by noon. If this has happened to you, this movie will resound with you. But if you it hasn't, or if you are not part of corporate America, please go see it and know that this is very real. The truth is that now, white collar jobs are the among the least secure that exist, and except for the few who get the real big dollars, you work at the whim of the executives, the price of the stock and the merger and takeover environment, which is only meant to make the rich get richer, despite the rhetoric of shareholder value, synergie, more and more profit without regard to what is ethtically and morally right.
Because the movie accurately depicts the emotional ups and downs, the loss of self, the denials one goes through, I thought it was spot on and should be seen by everyone.
Ben Affleck was quite real in his roll, as was the rest of the cast. Tommy Lee Jones was great as always.
The movie has a subdued tone to it, but because of the subject matter, it is the appropriate.
Go see it not becuase it's a great action movie, or a tearjerker, or will make you laugh, but because it is real and will make you think.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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