Tuesday, February 24
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Office Space: Unless you're one of these snooty, uptight, yuppy types, you cannot deny that director Mike Judge’s “Office Space” has had an indelible effect on modern culture.
It’s called RELATIONAL HUMOR - people can relate to the sh*t that Peter Gibbons goes through in his everyday existence - the same sh*t that we all have to deal with in our everyday lives….bosses, insane co-workers, managerial nonsense, technical glitches, impertinent computers and procedural headaches. Peter's had it up to here with the multiple managers, baffling computer errors and nonsensical documentation requirements of his employer, the fictional company of Initech.
You don't have to be a corporate drone to enjoy Judge's satire, it’s a catharsis of sorts for us all. Identify a bitter truth found beneath the hilarious situations in this film. Keep your responses unique and support them with examples from the film. Minimum 150 words.
Office Space: Unless you're one of these snooty, uptight, yuppy types, you cannot deny that director Mike Judge’s “Office Space” has had an indelible effect on modern culture.
It’s called RELATIONAL HUMOR - people can relate to the sh*t that Peter Gibbons goes through in his everyday existence - the same sh*t that we all have to deal with in our everyday lives….bosses, insane co-workers, managerial nonsense, technical glitches, impertinent computers and procedural headaches. Peter's had it up to here with the multiple managers, baffling computer errors and nonsensical documentation requirements of his employer, the fictional company of Initech.
You don't have to be a corporate drone to enjoy Judge's satire, it’s a catharsis of sorts for us all. Identify a bitter truth found beneath the hilarious situations in this film. Keep your responses unique and support them with examples from the film. Minimum 150 words.
DUE: Thursday, 2/26
One of the bitter truths that I realized throughout this movie is "You can't always get want you want." I find this bitter truth to be realistic in the film because not everything in life is perfect and the quote says it all, everything you ask for you might not get. For instance, in this comedy, Peter Gibbons comes to his senses that he hates his job, his boss, and the single life. When he sees Joanna, the women he likes, he really wants her. Peter also realizes that life would be better without a job and doing whatever he pleases. In the end, the bitter truth is "You can't always get want you want" because Peter's life doesn't go according to plan and eventually loses his job and the girl. Therefore, there are many bitter truths hidden beneath the comedy Office Space.
ReplyDeleteOne bitter truth that the movie Office Space is emplying is that not all things in life are enjoyable. This movie in particular shows the main character Peter and how boring and strenuous his job is on him. Peter realizes that he must stick with his job because he needs cash flow and he doesnt know what else he can do. On a personal level, this relates to me as well. as a student, one job i must do is homework. I dont enjoy doing homework but i do it anyway because it affects other things in my life such as my test grades and my participation in class. In this case, Peters job affects his whole life, including his mood. Another truth that is expressed in the movie that is not necessarily bitter is the fact that you should change what does not make you happy. If the problem is fixable, you should fix it. The movie shows a perfect example of this for at the end of the movie, Peter gets a job he acual enjoys, being a construction worker. Although the movie ends there, we, the viewers, can imply that Peters life gets much better due to his job change.
ReplyDeleteEven though i started watching this movie about halfway through because i just joined the class, i was able to obtain enough information on how life really is for many people today working in office spaces on computers. This is really not the ideal life that i think anyone could possibly want, which is why the people in the movie decided to revolt against their jobs, and not do sh*t. Humans were not created to sit in front of a computer screen in a 5 foot radius of other people and pretend their doing work for their whole life. Personally I think that's just a waste of time, and I would most likely go crazy with a job like that for more then even one day. That's even more boring then going to school, just kidding i love school. Peter Gibbons although does realize how horrible his job is and the amount of hate he feels toward his boss, job, and single life. So when he starts doing whatever he pleases, thats when I knew he was making the right decision. My advice for anyone living this kind of life now days is, "Get a New Job".
ReplyDeleteCOBI A.K.A Brian Span
Office Space is a very memorable hilarious comedy that plays on the everyday hate people experience in the workplace the dull lifestyle, which repeats itself over and over again. It has many bitter truths but one of the most obvious and understandable ones is that people in life may not enjoy the job they have so trying to fight it and not do it may be worse than just accepting that it’s just work. In Office Space, Peter really despises his job even calling it an evil corporation and even wanting to scam the company but he doesn’t realize that he is just over obsessed about the job than he needs to be, when his scam goes wrong and almost loses his girlfriend because of his obsession. It shows that most people wont enjoy the jobs they have but sometimes accepting it and making the best of it will result the best or simply switching your job and having confidence that you will be happy at the new job.
ReplyDeleteOffice Space is masterpiece when it comes to the use of corperate satire. There are many events in this movie where Judge exposes a bitter truth behind something hilarious.
ReplyDeleteOne scene that really sticks out in my mind as a satirical bitter truth was towards the beginning of the movie when the main character, Peter Gibbons, is sitting at his desk when he is approached by Bill Lumbergh who addresses that Peter has made a mistake on his TPS report. Peter, already knowing about the mistake, tries to explain to him that he knew but is continuosly shut down with Lumbergh's droning statements that all begin with "Yeah..." or end with "... that'd be great." After he finally leaves, Peter tries to get back to working when Dom Portwood approaches him with the same mistake that Peter made. Once Dom is done with Peter, he walks away and as he does this Peter gets a phone call about his mistake.
What makes this scene reveal a bitter truth is that all these people who reached Peter were each one of his several bosses! The bitter truth that is exposed here is that the average corperate structure is filled with multiple people (who are given too much power with very little work to do, all with a big paycheck (EX: Lumbergh's Porsche)) all doing the same job.
One of the things i find hilarious in this movie is the irony of every day life. There are alot of things in this movie that are pretty ironic and this movie helps show us the irony of life.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most ironic things is probably Melvin who, on a regular basis threatens to burn down the building. However absolutly no one believes him and even at the end of the movie when he does in fact burn it down no one really does anything. Peter watches him leave (i think) and smiles because he never thought he would actually do it.
This points out the irony in life because people make sarcastic comments or jokingly say things like that and no one ever takes it seriously, but in Melvin's case they probably should have.
Office Space reveals the fear of a monotonous life we all share and condones it in a comical manner. Peter Gibbons and his friends live life under a strenuous clock only to brude about it later. A funny and memorable scene in the movie is when they take the copy machine out to the field and beat it to a pulp. This is funny because they put it in slowmotion, meant to symbolize a couple of "badasses getting their point across." In their minds, that's what they are, the rebels taking their rsentment out on the office. But we all know, they go to work the next morning. So, only in your minds guys :)
ReplyDeleteThe biggest bitter truth that can be found in Office Space is that we may all not end up in life where we want to. Most little boys and girls want to be astronauts or ballerinas, but not many wake up one day and say "Mommy! Mommy! I want to work in a cubicle for eight hours a day and sometimes even on weekends!"
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately for Peter Gibbons, that's the way his life turned out. He realizes that he hates his job and his many bosses and he did not plan to be this way in life. Maybe it started out as a part time job to pay the bills or maybe it was a fun thing to do with his friends until he found something better, but once Peter realized it was becoming his life, he needed to get out.
Many people tend to get this way and fall into the trend. They don't want to stay in that cubicle forever but before they even know it, it's been thirty years and they're going to be retiring soon.
Somehow Office Space was able to take something so dark that it can destroy a person’s life, and turn it into one of the funniest movies of all time.