Product: Office Space (1999)
Rating: 5.0
Office Grotesqueries Ring True
What's amazing about this satire of office life--its cubicle-enclosed dehumanization, its absurd rules, its malignant memoes, its dysfunctional employees--is that everyone who has an office job and has seen the film bears witness to the fact that the grotesqueries in Office Space bear a realistic reflection to their real job. If anything, people at the office have anecdotes and employee profiles that are even more insane than those rendered in the film, which has become a sort of manifesto for those who are disenchanted with their office jobs. If you are a fan of this film, you might want to pick up a nonfiction memoir by Ian Levison called A Working Stiff's Manifesto.