..."The Company Men" is to people over, perhaps, the age of 40. The movie gets the details right about what it's like to suffer through unemployment when your white collar skills aren't going to help you anymore.
"The Company Men" gets the details right. The useless "out training" sessions, the huddling over a computer and a phone at the employment centre. The not being able to go home, because...what will the neighbours think? The hair dye for competing for jobs with 22-year-olds with masters degrees. It's there and it feels real. A younger colleague of mine said she found the film predictable. As drama, perhaps it is a bit. Everything does seem to get tied up in a bow in the end, but does it really? Isn't the finale, though certainly delivering a positive message, as uncertain as the rest of what has gone before?
"The Company Men" gets the details right. The useless "out training" sessions, the huddling over a computer and a phone at the employment centre. The not being able to go home, because...what will the neighbours think? The hair dye for competing for jobs with 22-year-olds with masters degrees. It's there and it feels real. A younger colleague of mine said she found the film predictable. As drama, perhaps it is a bit. Everything does seem to get tied up in a bow in the end, but does it really? Isn't the finale, though certainly delivering a positive message, as uncertain as the rest of what has gone before?