职场无间道

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

  好片子，叫人觉得意犹未尽。故事仅仅发生在七个人之前，而且在一个办公室里面。拍片的成本估计一点都不高，这叫我想起了另外一部片子，叫做《一线生机》，更是了得，全部故事几乎就发生在一个公用电话亭及其周围。
  情节可以说是跌宕起伏，一切都是陷阱，而且还不知道这个陷阱是真的还是假的，里面还有没有更深一层的陷阱，到最后也不知道。
  实际上，虽然它隐藏了极大的意义在其中，但是整部片子除了到最后一段耐人寻味，其他部分都是十分有趣的而吸引人的，才不至于叫人对在这小小的会议室里发生的故事产生疲倦。
  最后的画面十分耐人深思。女主角在与前男友的对工作的争夺战失败后，走在萧索的大街上，充满雾气的街上满是劳工游行后残留的物品。
  女主角趟在这街上，像是战败的士兵走在满是残骸的战场上。
  这就是生存法则。
  创意十分了得。非常喜欢。强烈推荐。

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.