Will you fall and rise or fail soberly. Are you willing to bring cocaine and join me into this circle and become the person at the top of the food chain? This sounds like a very absurd request, but in the independent music circle in the early 1990s, this sentence was very common. This film is based on the music culture movement in the early nineties. It developed into a fight against the music and cultural trends of the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially against the Grunge trend from the United States. Although more people consider it to be a marketing tool rather than a culture and genre, this cultural environment still affected most underground bands in the UK at that time. These bands lead British alternative rock to the mainstream. Perhaps the most fascinating thing about this film is the music. Every scene cannot be separated from the music. Of course, this is also due to the specific music circles and bars and other scenes. The content of the work itself is also eye-catching. The opening shows the protagonist Steven who is intoxicated by drugs, and introduces his work by self-report. Then on the surface he smiled at his colleague, but in the next second he inhaled too much hallucinogen in order to pee on him for fun, vent his anger, and secretly determined to surpass this short-sighted, stupid addict. Roger, take the position of the head of the artist department. He teamed up with Cui Like to add fuel and vinegar so that the general manager Derek fired Schneider, the former head of the artist department. I thought that the little yellow song brought back from the trip to Cannes could make me shine, but no one cared about it. And the most incompetent and stupid Roger became the head of the artist department. Steven and Roger returned to Roger's apartment after attending the awards ceremony. Roger, who was unconscious, imagined his vision for the future of the artist department. Steven became angry, restrained Roger with a rope and smashed it with a candlestick. Skull, this is exactly what Steven has always dreamed of. After getting rid of his nails, he continued to search for his target and was ashamed. He heard the song of a very popular band in the bar, and suddenly remembered that this was the lazy band that his assistant had mentioned repeatedly before, so he had dinner and interview, but failed. . The contract has been snatched by Park Hall, head of Steven’s rival company. In order to relieve the stress, Steven and his party took a lot of drugs. Half asleep and half awake, they learned that General Manager Derek had poached Park Hall to take the position of the head of the company's artist department. Next, Steven almost fell into a low point in his life: the police officer investigating the cause of Roger's death was pressing every step, his secretary Rebecca held important evidence that he killed Roger and threatened his promotion, and the contract he signed. The girl band is simply a group of mobs who have been swept away by their interests and soaked in junk food. They followed their elusive boss Park Hall to a high-level dinner, but they were very big. Unwillingly criticized the executives who advocated women's rights and angered the expulsion of the senior officials present. He fell into a desperate situation, helpless, returned home to support. Originally negligence of duty was enough to be dismissed by the boss, when it was critical, the mob of his own men went on fire, all the way from the fog to the north. Steven regained his strength and used baby photos to frame his boss into jail as a pedophile. Next came the pesky police officer and femme fatale Rebecca. Steven first set up a drug pornographic bureau with Rebecca to take a cheating drug video that was enough to make him lose his job. Then he killed Rebecca and abetted him. Police officer Wood, who was unconscious by the drugs, dismembered the body and filmed it. Since then, all stumbling blocks have been removed, and he has become the head of the artist department without any suspense. This work reasonably uses the first-person self-reporting method. The self-reporting of the protagonist Steven runs through the entire movie, showing the distinctive features of British black humor. The combination of long and short lenses is also very reasonable. Among them, Steven imagined the scene of himself killing Roger. With his excited narration, the scene shook and then moved to take a plane to Cannes, which was also very smooth and ingenious. The depiction of the characters in the work is vivid and three-dimensional. The protagonist Steven chooses Nicholas Holt to be very accurate. On the surface, he has an innocent and kind face, but in fact he has great ambitions and desires, uninhibited, tired of the world and fighting for fame. Li Xiangyan is in contradiction, which is also reflected in the self-report. In addition, killing and framing all the things he did were forced to make choices in this highly competitive circle. It was not that he was not guilty. It was just that in the social environment at that time, the truth was often not so important. The bosses in the enterprise often value your ability and the profits you bring to them. As for the dead, or other things, they are not as good as money and power. Roger, the one killed in the film, is also the most useless stupid addict. He doesn't even know the death of the famous singer, so he will naturally be ruthlessly eliminated by that era. And Parkhall and Rebecca are obviously at the other extreme. They are too smart and extremely conceited, so they will naturally be calculated by others in their calculations. Trelik is a man of vision and vision. He has always been in Steven's camp. Obviously, he is right. And Derek, even a ruthless boss who looks at the facts and speaks, but as long as his position is high enough, the bottom struggle for power has nothing to do with him. He only needs to watch quietly and promote the situation in a timely manner, and the result is good for him. Up. People like this can’t be said to be good or bad, because no matter it’s that dark age, dark circles, or this age, most of the bosses in the company are no different from him. As for the other people, although they form the content of the whole movie together, they exist Because of the development of the story, it was briefly explained by the protagonist Steven in the form of self-report. This is exactly what the movie shows in detail. The film directed by Owen Harris is still controversial. Although the film is quite upward, it makes people feel the power of progress. However, there are some large-scale erotic shots in the film, as well as a large number of drug-taking scenes in order to reveal the extravagant and ugly status quo of the British music circle at that time. Although it reflects the fact that the people at the bottom were still stuck in the quagmire in order to relieve the pressure of work and to temporarily escape the hardship and climb up, the reality of drug use was still criticized by some people. But this is not the point of our appreciation of this film, is it? Cocaine, lust, addiction, deception, everything is just a reflection of the truth. What is important must be meaningful to reality, just as we must remember in this film a set of dialogues that appear once at the beginning and at the end: "What is the meaning of life?" "Crush and destroy your enemies . And enjoy the wailing of their women.” The meaning of this group of lines for the modern era naturally does not include the last sentence. The troughs and climaxes of life, the starting point and focus of darkness, and the rise does not mean that you are far away from danger. On the contrary, the race for money and power has just begun. At the end of the film, the lines at the beginning of the reference are from history. Steven and Darren finished it together. The last two shots show Darren sitting in Steven’s seat. Steven looked at him in a little surprise. Maybe it heralds the next power competition. Who will die? The story does not end, this is exactly the technique of blanking. "Only brave and tenacious people, in the knowledge that being found, will hinder inertia, but gritted their teeth, adhere to the completion of the task, and at all costs." , Will hinder inertia, but clenched teeth, insisted on completing the task, and at all costs. "The forces will accumulate together again and again" power will accumulate in the pursuit and exploration again and again.
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