Why did people in the 80s and 90s hate office jobs so much?
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Why did people in the 80s and 90s hate office jobs so much?
Why did people in the 80s and 90s hate office jobs so much?
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People who make movies are the artistic types who consider a 9-5 office job the equivalent of a slow death. Also American Psycho didn't make the office look that bad but that was just because it was a bunch of wealthy yuppies screwing around.
American Psycho has nice offices, but its about going insane fromt he vapidness of that kind of life.
They are slow death.
American Psycho is about the antisocial and sociopathic behavior being promoted in these investment banking socialite circles thrived on the lack of accountability present in the 80s.
The reason Patrick can thrive as a killer is the flippant and shallow way the people in these circles interact with each other, unable to distinguish each other as people (constantly mixing up names) but only recognizing associations and accomplishments (firms and practices).
These things create the perfect environment for serial killers.
Personally I prefer the book, it does a much better job at displaying Patrick's mind as the sick social opportunist that he is, and doesn't frame him as a result of the business world but instead as an embodiment of it and someone who thrives in it.
Also the movie leaves out scenes like the rat torture.
It's pretty much just being an adult sucks. Or rather, or adulting in the Reddit sense of the term. Basically losing any kind of edge and just having a friggin' normal one.
Man was meant to die at 25 in a glorious display a la mishima
The nice thing about the 2010s and 2020s has been the internet makes it A LOT better to be an adult. You can now watch youtube when you go home at night, and browse Cinemaphile and other sites.
>The nice thing about the 2010s and 2020s has been the internet makes it A LOT better to be an adult. You can now watch youtube when you go home at night, and browse Cinemaphile and other sites.
This is considered 'good' lmao
We hadn't become peak CONSOOOOOMER brain yet so people wanted more from life than sitting in a room for 8 hours a day looking at walls. Now people love that shit so they can CONSOOOOOOM
they do suck. the only reason it wouldn't now is because things have just gotten so much worse
I hope i get to go insane and have my own Tyler Durden, would be cool
>American Psycho
Immoral behavior in society allows immoral men to thrive
>Fight Club
The world doesn't need men anymore
>Office Space
Companies dehumanizing people to appear more human to other people
>Falling Down
Guy has a bad day and takes it out on everyone else including his family
Which I get because driving in traffic is just really expensive queueing
>Fight Club
>The world doesn't need men anymore
25 years later and mroe relevant than ever
Down
>Guy has a bad day
he was laid off by a defense contractor.
For his untreated schizophrenia months prior to the start of the movie
Do you work an office job?
I technically don't. Office type work (spreadsheet, reports, meetings...) is only about 80% of my duties. The other 20% is what keeps me from killing everyone in that building, for now
There wasn't Youtube or Cinemaphile to keep even slacking off from becoming vaguely unpleasant.
Falling Down had literally nothing to do with the guy's job except for the fact he lost it
>Falling Down had literally nothing to do with the guy's job
You can't be serious
How am I wrong? It's been a while but as far as I can remember Dfens valued his job. The idea that office work is dehumanising explored in Fight Club and Office Space wasn't touched on at all by Falling Down, nor American Psycho. Both are out of place for what OP is describing. He needs to get some
>media literacy
Oh someone needs some media literacy training anon, but it ain't me.
anon. the job didn't make him that way, he was that way before.
If thats what you think, you'd be wrong.
I just remembered Robert Duvall's character, I guess there was a bit of office job commentary in there so fair enough, hardly the whole point of the movie though. What about American Psycho?
American Psycho is literally all about how vapid modern office life is, how vapid the people are.
they're not office drones, they're wall street nepobabies and the movie doesn't show them doing any office work because their work isn't the point
Filtered
He liked his job - part of the problem was he was made 'economically unviable' and didn't have purpose. Working on missile systems at top secret defence companies must have been exciting stuff in the 80s especially.
Tyler was right
People didn't expect the life of the working class would get shockingly worse, rather than better, in the 90s. We've degraded past where labor relations were in the 1890s.
It's all about perspective. They're all movies about middle class people wishing they upper middle class. But coming from lower middle class i really appreciated the office jobs i got because i had a shitty degree and i would take any job just to make ends meet. Every day i'm grateful that i don't have to bust my back doing manual labor and i would rather have my shitty office job than be significantly worse off. My only hope is that one day i stop being so comfortable with mediocrity that i motivate myself to reach higher career goals, but that's a subject long enough for its own movie.
Anticapitalist propaganda.