Among various downsizing measures, longtime employee Jose is summarily dismissed, and doesn’t take it well… Within factory walls, meanwhile, everything is far from hunky-dory.
Once the visitors are gone, however… a little harsh housekeeping. We first encounter him giving a smarmy pep talk to the employees at his company… All smiles and handshakes and repeated mentions of community, it’s a performance for the benefit of a local journalist, visiting to big-up the factory in a commissioned puff piece… You shudder to think how fast it would vanish if you did anything but. “‘Don’t treat me like a boss,’ Blanco keeps telling people with a thin gray smile. Everything must be perfect – Julio, risking his own sanity, will ensure that it is, no matter who he must seduce and destroy. In a few days’ time, the national committee deciding the award outcome will come to inspect the premises. Trust us.Javier Bardem, renowned for his memorable portrayals of villains in No Country for Old Men and Skyfall, adds another sinisterly charming, immoral character to his repertoire as the titular “good boss” in this dark Spanish satire which bagged all the top awards at the 2022 Goyas (the Spanish Oscars).īenevolent patriarch Julio Blanco, CEO of a family company manufacturing precision industrial scales, is determined to win a prestigious business award. Either way, our list is perfect for escaping reality with the epochal characters of a beloved decade-Chunk, Ferris, Indy, Baby, Loretta-because going through bouts of uncertainty in a time capsule is a lot better. Some you know and love, and some you might be experiencing for the first time.
Here, we’ve culled a robust selection of ’80s movies for your viewing pleasure. The decade is a wealth of feel-good, top-tier cinematic fare, be it a humorous dissection of the adolescent experience from John Hughes, a cultural touchstone that leaves a massive lump in your throat, or a rhythmic celebration of dance and music from a subgenre that was peaking. The New Coke, leg-warmer, shoulder-pad, badass bitchin’ ’80s. And when conflict could be solved with a dance-off. When the cordless phone was cutting edge. You know, when the synthesizer was considered awesome. Still unsure of what’s to come, we find ourselves looking for comfort in simpler, more favorable times. A pandemic, social unrest, political division, the assault on women’s rights. But the past few years have challenged us.
When the ball dropped on a new decade, expectations for 2020 were lofty.
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