This is an old film from 1988, but I watched it with gusto.
The actors and actresses have great acting skills, and the film has a strong sense of substitution, although the plot is inevitably out of the ordinary 30 years later.
The beautiful, sexy and gentle female protagonist Tess has been working as a secretary assistant and other auxiliary work. She is very serious and refuses to compromise with the unspoken rules of the workplace. Therefore, she has been transferred and transferred. The last chance to transfer is in the film. Catherine is the second female secretary.
Catherine has a distinguished family background and a brilliant academic background. Although she is the same age as Tess, she has become a partner with an independent office. She is well versed in all the rules of the game in the workplace, walks easily among all kinds of interest partners, and does not hesitate to climb up by all means. Including, privately taking Tess's idea as his own, but telling Tess that the boss is not optimistic about her proposal.
However, people are not as good as the sky. At this moment, Catherine broke her leg while skiing. When Tess was helping Catherine clean up the apartment, she accidentally discovered Catherine's inauthentic practices, and she decided to get everything that belonged to her in her own way. She pretended to be a work agent at the same level during Catherine’s sick leave, and began to advance the case she proposed. In the process, she met the male protagonist, whom Catherine once said, and dated the man who was going to guide him to propose for a while, but She didn't know this relationship.
Just when she and the hero were about to finish the case together, Catherine returned, exposed her pretending behavior, and insisted that she had stolen her proposal. But the male protagonist already trusted and fell in love with her during the cooperation process. With the help of the male protagonist, she gained the trust of the boss, and Catherine lost her job and the male protagonist. And she won a better position, a position with her own secretary and office, and won the love of the male protagonist.
The last scene of the film is quite ironic. She called her good friend, Xin, her former colleague in the company. Xin is still just a small employee sitting in the cubicle. She tells Xin that she owns a room that belongs to her. Office. Xin put down the phone and yelled with joy to all the staff at the bottom of the hall, "Tess has her own office!"
No matter how you look at it, this movie should not be included in a comedy romance movie. It is clearly an inspirational movie. It's a story of a small workman's counterattack. In other words, this is a story of a small social man's successful counterattack. The workplace in the film is just a miniature of society. The female protagonist has a very classic line, to the effect that "people at the bottom of the workplace like me, don't try to fight for themselves without trying to go slanting forward, and there is no chance to climb up."
I like this movie.
Although the real workplace will definitely not give such a fair ending to a small person.
In most workplaces in reality, it is normal for ideas to be plagiarized by their bosses, and it is normal for plans and reports to be directly renamed by their bosses and submitted to larger leaders. Faced with a boss, no matter how unbearable, there are only two ways to go, either endure or let him go. Forbearance, day after day, the only hope is that after the boss is promoted or transferred, he will be promoted; it is not easy to get the boss to get out, and the boss will never drive him away because his boss has plagiarized your idea, unless yours What did your boss do to hurt the company’s interests in private, you must be able to get real evidence, even if you get it, you must think about it. Reporting and exposing your boss is a double-edged sword. The report is successful. Although the boss is out, you are afraid of the future. Few people in the industry dare to use you; if you fail to report, you have to get out.
This is a realistic workplace.
But I still love this naive movie.
In an environment where the mechanism is relatively solidified, when faced with unfair treatment of people stronger than ourselves, can we also muster up the courage and take risks like the heroine to fight this unfair fate?
At least, the heroine succeeded. This is the beauty that the film conveys, called hope.
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