职场无间道

Corporate Caveat: you may become a monster while climbing up the corporate ladder.

Heard of that one before? True, it is not that orginal. What makes it a bit different from better movies in this genre, the likes of "In the Company of Men", or "The Player", is the background of the global discontent with globalization. The day these 7 candidates sat down for a dog-eat-dog, "Survivor"-style corporate job interview, just "happened" to be the day of demonstration against the devastation that IMF and World Bank visited on developing nations.

The "coincidence" is deliberatly planned and carefully crafted by the screen-writer. First of all, looming in the reception room is the invisible ghost of the "Gronholm Method", a fictional corporate screening methodology based in military psychology from the last century, adopted by the Big Bad Wolf of Corporate America, and then passed on to the Europeans and South Americans; a "globalization" of wickedness, if you will. It is also significant, for instance, that the first candidate to go is a wistle-blower with solid track record of untarnished conscience. This is then followed by a lily-livered public betrayal. Then the movie gravitates towards the final scene, the ultimate Mephisto Moment, when the souls are placed on the edge of a dainty scale of the Usurers of the 21st Century. On that note, can you extract a pound of human flesh, without one drop of blood? Yes, if the heart has no blood left in or around it.

There are also clear signs of nostalgia (of which I have mized feelings), preferring the known evil from the by-gone days to the incomprehensible coldness of heart in the younger generations of corporate warriors. The old-fashioned "Iberian Macho", while not a particularly savory character, is proven to be far less lethal and unconcionable than the multilingual, fashionably and carelessly vicious Gen-X'ers. One cannot help feeling for his panicked dislocation.

Chilling.

好久没有看到这么精彩的剧本和演绎了。8个演员，几乎全部是对话和简单的几个室内场景，却可以做到飞花摘叶，信手拈来，妙趣横生，毫不冷场，引人入胜又发人深省。主要情节是：2女5男应聘一间公司。在一个密闭的房间中，仅仅为了最后的结果，在彬彬有礼的表象下，是毫不犹豫地撕破脸，拉下皮，尔虞我诈，众口铄金，指鹿为马，颠倒黑白，无所不用其极。总之是自己绝不能做回自己，别人则一定要踩在脚下。其中有一个情节是，假设地球只剩你们几个，但又一人要淘汰，请说出你能留下的理由。其中一个中年女性说，我烧的一手好菜。另一个年轻女子不动生色地说：我可以成为在场所有男性孩子的母亲。中年女性也赤裸裸了：我也能。马上有男人诘难说，生孩子你好像老了一点吧。中年女性急了：到时候，我能一蹶屁股让他们上，你能吗？这部电影也可以叫做生态球电影，即在一个相对封闭的环境里，设定各色人等，输入一定的条件（挑战或危机），则可以观察众生相和生态球的演进（比如卡桑德拉大桥）。而眼下这个生态球不幸让我们看到：只消巧妙设定一个游戏规则，并辅以竞争性的群体，就可以让人性几乎全然泯灭，难道真的人心惟危？不过影片中最后一个被淘汰者本是人群中最冷酷和冷静又高智商的一个。然后就是她在稳啊胜券时，电光火石间，她竟然哆嗦了一下，便成就败局。真应了那句话：Sometimes we win, but we lose. Sometimes, we lose but we win.　

每个人面试可能不一定遇到片中种种情况，也八九不离十，只不过你现在看觉得太夸张，那是因为当时在面试感觉不到而已。

如果你爱玩杀人游戏；或者爱看survivor或apprentice那类真人秀；或者至少不讨厌翻翻《杜拉拉升职记》；或者哪怕偶尔也要八两句卦呢。。。那么，你就一定会爱上这部弓虽的西班牙电影“生存法则”。

翻译过来电影名字叫《生存法则》，很切题。

七名满怀希望获得跨国公司的一份顶级行政工作的求职者，在一栋摩天大楼的办公室里准备迎接面试筛选。在经过了表格填写、合格鉴定以及其它商业官样文件的迷宫般的程序后，七名应聘者全都让秘书带到一间冰冷的房间等待面试筛选。

好电影，类似《梦想照进现实》，场景就局限在面试的那个房间里，7个人的对话构成了电影。然而比《梦》好看得多——看《梦》有时候想睡觉，看《生》让我昨晚没睡觉。

电影有点像“杀人游戏”，考验的是人的心理素质和心机。电影里一个人不是说了吗，这叫“群体动力学”。
杀人游戏以前玩过，从来没赢过。所以加入面试中的人是我，那就不用轮到最后了，第一个就会被淘汰吧。
每一个人被淘汰的过程都异常残忍。

一个是被揭批过去的丑闻
一个是身为女人，因衰老（不擅长为自己辩护）而被抛弃
一个是情急之下出卖了朋友而被踢出局，但其实那只是一个圈套
一个是受到嘲讽恼羞成怒
还剩两个。他们是恋人。公司的人让他们要在15分钟设计圈套骗对方出局。

看到这里我一直在想两件事
1，如果我是那个男的我该怎么做
2，这是多么变态的一家公司啊