This movie about layoffs.
Of course, layoffs are just a skin, and this movie is still about real life.
In my memory, there are quite a few such movies. The basic routine is how a small employee is fired by a big company, how he is tortured by life, how he is attacked by society, and finally, with the encouragement of his family and friends, he will face work and work again. Life, the final outcome, whether it is HE or BE, personal growth, or a sense of reality.
And this movie is kind of the opposite. Because his protagonist is in a position of dismissing others, a role that is different from the characters in previous film and television works.
(A bit like George Clooney himself? When he was young and famous, everyone looked up to him.)
Let's take a look at his famous "knapsack theory":
How much does your life weigh? Assuming that life is the backpack on your shoulders, friends, colleagues, siblings, aunts and uncles, parents, wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends will give you certain expectations and trust every day, feel this backpack, imagine what you have on your shoulders The backpack is embedded in your shoulders, your agreements, arguments, secrets, commitments with them are the weight you need to bear, the pain you need to endure. As another analogy, what do you have in your backpack? From a small beginning, toothpaste, toothbrush, clothes, lamps, towels, pillows; to big ones, TVs, sofas, beds, dining tables, cars, and even your house, and the weight is still increasing, you are carrying this Are you tired of walking with a heavy backpack on the road of life? Then like me, put down the backpack, take out everything inside, burn it, carry that empty backpack and go on the road, you will feel very good! (Quoted from the movie?)
(George Clooney himself seems to be very similar to the protagonist, The Golden Bachelor, for the first half of his life.)
Of course, the next step is still a routine. The elites brought little rookies to lay off staff. Unexpectedly, the little rookie used a new plan to optimize the position of the old fox. At the same time, the old fox failed in the love arena and was put together.
What follows is a twist, where the protagonist reflects on the meaning of life.
After all, life has to be grounded.
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