There are many images of workaholics in movies, such as Catwoman's "The Devil Wears Prada". Of course, the latter is a passive choice. So, how do you describe a person who can sacrifice everything for the sake of work?
At the beginning of the picture, the heroine and the lawyer are practicing dialogue, and cross-editing some pictures of the court trial starting soon. We know that the heroine is in trouble. This can be said to arouse the audience's interest.
Then the next thing to pay attention to is how the heroine got into the lawsuit.
consequentialism
This is probably the "common problem" of all workaholics. The screen shifts to the conversation between the heroine and her assistant, at a breathless pace. It doesn't matter what they discuss, the important thing is that this dialogue shows that the heroine only cares about the results, not the means. Of course, it is still necessary to make illegal behavior put on a legal coat. After all, the heroine is not stupid.
Then, it was the clever tongue of the hostess in the conference room, which made us have to marvel at her business ability. Faced with a rookie who was not yet proficient in her business, our Ms. Sloan not only held back her anger, but also told a joke. It not only entertained everyone, but also taught the rookie something. What is this called, this is called entertaining, two birds with one stone, it is not simple or simple. By the way, since this joke is too classic, I'll just post the full text.
Miss Sloan accepted an offer from Peterson & Co. to head the lobbying team supporting gun control laws. Of course, she knew very well that she needed a team, so it would be nice to be able to take a group of colleagues from the old company with a lot of knowledge. So after a tirade in the conference room about how marketing can avoid taxes using the cookie and cake metaphor, he made his intentions clear. At this time, she did not forget to mock the rookie before.
In the end, 4 people chose to follow Sloan. And the assistant who had expected it, chose to stay. At this time, there was a head-on conflict between the two, and the arrogance of Ms. Sloan that was extremely annoying to others was the first time that the audience could feel it so clearly. But, how could the protagonist get caught up in such a trivial matter, leave after saying a cruel word, handsome.
After learning that a colleague had been a victim of a shooting, she knew she had to play the emotional card. Therefore, she did not care about the colleague's right to privacy and the trauma of her soul, and directly pushed her into the spotlight at the cusp of public opinion. Facing the girl's tearful and resentful questioning after the incident, she answered quite calmly.
Although it makes sense and cannot be refuted, it is just annoying. The reason for this is that after the woman was almost killed for supporting gun control, in the face of Ms. Sloan's concern, she pointed out:
Of course, I'm here to work, and I'm not your best friend. Why should I listen to your complaints and care about you? Therefore, in the picture in the middle above, there is nothing wrong with the translation of the last two "duty" into "responsibility", but the translation of the first one is too blunt. According to Miss Sloan's character, the meaning here should be "(I understand you) but this is none of my business". In fact, some of them are really unable to understand the difficulties of others, and the other is like Miss Sloan, who can understand the difficulties of others, but these difficulties have nothing to do with her and what to do, so she Don't even care. Human energy is limited after all, and something like "empathy" fails to directly create value, so why bother?
Another example is illegal surveillance. When she learned that a congressman had temporarily changed his mind, she came to her "unofficial support team" and asked them to use the congressman's scandal to blackmail him. At that time, the team's boss followed her to the base, and it was extremely angry. He felt that doing so was different from those who knew how to buy votes with money. But Sloan doesn't care, as long as the goal can be achieved, the means is not important.
Take control
Our heroine seems to like that everything is under her control. Yes, who doesn't like it, strategizing and making a final decision. And Ms. Sloan's overall control is due to her business ability that is beyond the reach of ordinary people.
In a speech given by a congressman selling medical equipment, Ms. Sloan asked a colleague to mix in as an audience member. According to the arrangement, the organizer would ask the colleague to ask questions. But because the identity cover was not well done, they asked another audience member to ask questions. At that time, the female colleague was very anxious, and ran the train with a phone full of mouth to explain the current situation to Ms. Sloan and asked about the next step. As for Ms. Sloan, she casually told her why this was happening, and like a magician, she anticipated what would happen next: the organizer hired another person to ask the question, and it was also arranged by Ms. Sloan. In other words, what Ms. Sloan said to her colleague, Plan B, was actually Plan A. How exquisite. Afterwards, I did not forget to clink glasses with my former colleagues as a mockery.
When they started a public debate on TV with the main force of the former team, they gave up the manuscript they had prepared before, and they said nothing after the emotional explosion, which made people think that they were lost. She even pointed out a colleague who had been a shooting victim in the spotlight. And when everyone felt that she did this out of helplessness, only the colleague understood all this: from the start of a late-night snack, to pushing her to the media to adapt to the environment, to the current position in front of the people of the whole country, It was all planned by Sloan.
Magical calculations, step by step.
Even when she resigned and left at that time, she left a back-up. This foreshadowing also allowed Sloan to win the final victory. Of course, it also includes spying on colleagues and driving away one of the inner ghosts. The technique is sharp and frightening.
Sloan breaks down three times on the show, two of them because things were going beyond her control.
pyrotechnic gas
No matter how you are a workaholic, you are first and foremost a person. And the only two things in the show that made me think Sloan was flamboyant were eating and... looking for ducks.
And Sloan's understanding of eating is also very, normal. "Necessary", it's not that I think too much, but there is no way. But it's nice to see Sloan eating so well. And eating is also a means to achieve an end, that is, at this dinner table, Sloan and the colleague who planned to become a chess pawn opened the gap between the latter becoming a pawn.
Then there is the duck. I can't help but want to laugh when I see this part, it turns out that she also has to deal with her sexual desire. Later, in a small chat with the prostitute, Ms. Sloan said the following:
She is alone like this, and she can pay when she needs to solve it, because she knew very early what she wanted to pursue in her life. But many of us have never thought about this problem in our whole life. In such a comparison, Ms. Sloan's realm is much higher.
And when the two met by chance in a restaurant, she pretended not to know when the male prostitute greeted her. Later in the hotel she was furious because she was afraid it would affect her career.
So even if Ms. Sloan occasionally showed these fireworks, it was only occasionally that she wanted to experience what it was like to be a mortal. We, after all, still can't reach that level.
crash
A total of three times.
For the first time, it broke out at the scene of the court hearing, when a congressman questioned his business ability because of his drug abuse. Before that, no matter what question the congressman asked, she had said the same thing in the same tone: that she had the right to remain silent. Not a word. Until, as mentioned earlier. She struggled with reason, hoarse. She knows she does anything, she knows she's an asshole, just like she knows how good she is at her job. So she absolutely can't tolerate people questioning her business ability, that's the only thing she's proud of.
The second time, it was in the face of a prostitute and moved with true feelings. Because the male prostitute insisted on greeting her in public, she was full of anger in the hotel. She explained to the male prostitute that they were just a business relationship, and that they didn't know anyone outside the door: After talking about the idea that they were just for profit, Sloan suddenly asked who the girl who was with him that day was . After learning that the male prostitute is inconvenient to disclose, he is full of ridicule. What is this called, jealous. It's so obvious, can't you see the male prostitute?
The male prostitute really didn't see it, and confronted Sloan, and then forced out her heart.
Then there was a long silence. The male prostitute slowly walked towards Ms. Sloan, and the two kissed, stroked their faces, hugged, and stripped, unable to restrain themselves. Just when it came to pass, Sloan stopped. The male prostitute was puzzled, and Sloan gave him money to let him go quickly, but the former was confused until he left. In the end, Sloan had to yell loudly to get him out of the way, saying that the old lady was not in the mood now, and this sudden temper really scared the male prostitute. Because Sloan knew that at this moment, her relationship with male prostitutes was not just the business she said before, she was in love. But how could those dreams and missions allow her to be emotional.
The third time, is in a desperate situation. Victims of shootings were saved by gun-owning citizens when their lives were on the line, so what position do they have to support gun control bills? The savior became a national hero, and rivals hyped the iron to hype, and several MPs fell to the other side. While the colleagues still wanted to do things, Sloan knew they couldn't do more this night. After everyone left, she sat alone in the conference room and made a call to the trump card. Then, frantically, he pushed all the documents on the table to the ground, panting heavily and hysterically.
Of course, she planned for the worst, and of course she was fully prepared for it, and even reserved her hole cards. But she didn't expect that it would really come this far. I thought that with my own ability, I would never be so embarrassed as it is now. Just like Mizuna Lingnai's shot at Shuichi Akai, the latter didn't think about it, but didn't expect things to be so bad. Sloan was really pushed to the end, and she was exhausted. It turns out that she, who is so proud, will also come to a desperate situation.
Belief
At the end of the trial, Sloan said that at first she simply wanted to win, she just liked facing an extremely difficult challenge and then enjoying the thrill of overcoming it.
I admit that I will do anything to win. But then, many unexpected things happened. Slowly, this so-called thing that can prove oneself has become the feeling that I am doing the right thing, so I should stick to it. She began to criticize the injustice of the government, began to criticize the corruption of the entire political circle, and began to explain who is the real dregs of this society.
Where did Ms. Sloan's perception come from? Like said above, many things are "unexpected". She never thought that her boss would let her go because she used illegal surveillance and other means; she never thought that when her colleagues faced the real threat of shooting, they would be helpless; she never thought that she would really go The end of the road; she never thought that she, surrounded by lies since childhood, would have a male prostitute willing to get along with her under her real name; she never thought that she would have a real love for him, just like she never thought that he would be in court Cover her up. Or maybe it was the lawyer who didn't like her but did his best to help her win the lawsuit; or maybe it was the colleague who almost died in the waiting room so helpless, but she was full of contempt in the face of her concern. .
She is still me, but the purpose has become extremely stalwart. She is no longer for her own performance, but for thousands of families. The proliferation of shootings caused by poor gun management has caused countless tragedies of broken homes and white-haired people sending black-haired people. She doesn't want to see it again.
At this time, the spirit of the consequentialism mentioned above and the ability to control the overall situation have all come out.
The phone call to the undercover agent in the conference room hysteria now plays a pivotal role. And his unofficial team also gave the necessary technical support, and secretly photographed the evidence of the judge's illegal transactions. At the same time, she fully admitted her illegal actions in all the process and accepted the punishment willingly.
Originally, Ms. Sloan could not only bring down those congressmen, but also let the bill she supported pass without going to jail, but she just got her hands dirty. But she knew what was the difference between her and those corrupt officials who could change their positions at will for the sake of money. She is no longer the lobbyist who could give everything to win. She is taking on a nobler and more difficult, brighter and heavier mission.
So she is willing to go to jail, just as it is to clean up her previous "sins". The lack of cowardice in the face of the enemy's aggressiveness, and the composure in the face of the impending prison disaster, this courage is admirable.
This is an idealist who is willing to sacrifice himself for the good of the majority, and allow me to pay you all my respects.
By the way, say one more thing. Ms. Sloan's final statement on career philosophy is a classic. If you can predict the three steps behind your opponent, you are a master; if you predict five steps, you are a master. The deepest insight comes from good experience, and good experience comes from failure. As for the king bomb in your hand, you must remember to wait for the opponent to show four twos before throwing it away.
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