The film is clearly against centralized government. It is inefficient, buggy, and inhuman when it comes to centralization. It seems nonsensical, but it is so close to the UK today in many ways.
In addition to the frequent terrorist activities, the nepotism of government departments and incompetent dereliction of duty, one of the most interesting plots is that repairing an air conditioner requires tedious filling out forms. This reminds me of one of the more wonderful things one of my students spoke about. The light bulb in his office needs to be replaced. He actually needs to report layer by layer. After waiting for a week, no one came to change it, so he had to buy a light bulb and replace it. As a result, the person who came to change the light bulb was quite unhappy, because what he changed was not standard.
However, the UK is now a market economy, except for medical treatment, there is nothing that is not market-oriented. You look at it and still think that Britain is pretty much what it looks like in the movies.
Do you think the market can handle it without the government? Let me tell you, it's not that simple. It is precisely because the performance of private providers in the market is difficult to monitor that a public service becomes a public service. Therefore, after many public services are privatized or become new public management that imitates the market, they also become endless filling out forms. The form that year was filled out was for inspection by the higher-level government. Filling out the form now is to face the discerning eyes of consumers. If you think it's good for consumers to be picky, you're still too simplistic. If consumers knew how critical they should be in public service, public service would not become public service.
UK news this morning: New research finds that many students sued teachers, only to find they were malicious. It is precisely the behavior of consumers who think that they are gods and can do whatever they want, so that teachers are no longer respected, and many teachers have swallowed their lives to pretend to be grandchildren and dare not control their students. Teachers only dare to teach, not to educate people, which is not equality and freedom in the true sense. (Parents who blindly support students who can use teachers as beanbags should think carefully. Your child's self-confidence does not have to be based on demanding teachers). Therefore, the British government has decided to protect the right of teachers from harassment by students from now on. Consumers are not grandchildren, but they are not gods either. Public service providers are not the masters of others, but they should not be grandchildren either. In a society, everyone does not have the mentality of being an equal person and doing things equally from their own beginning. In the final analysis, it is still abnormal.
At this point, the outcomes of utopia and extreme marketization seem to be the same. This is the great irony the world has given us. This 1980s movie only saw the half of consumers who are not grandchildren. I am afraid that the latter half will be made up by our generation.
This movie can be regarded as a genre with Dr. Strange Love and 2011: Space Odessy, and the period is relatively close. Why are people so savvy in that era, but now such movies can't be produced? I didn't expect Michael Palin to have a cameo in this movie. In the 1980s, he looked so old and sluggish, and after so many years, he is still the same.
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