I can't find a thread for movie reviews so posting it here:
Toni ErdmannNominated for Oscars for Best Actress, Best Director and Best Foreign Film.
It got 5 out of 5 stars in the Globe so I went...
First off it is three hours long. Second it is billed as a comedy...it has it's moments but it is not laugh a minute.
If anything I would say that it is very Mustachian because it really shows the stark misery of the modern workplace.
The father lives in a beautiful apartment that overlooks a lovely garden, he taught music to school kids, he has had a generally happy life and is a happy person.
His daughter lives in Bucharest which has walled off slums, her job is to outsource work and fire the locals, her coworkers are cutthroat with a client who cannot make up his mind. And her father wonders why she isn't happy? Talk about living a life of quiet desperation.
All in all: it's not a comedy and it's too long but it's thought provoking and it could strengthen your resolve to FIRE as soon as possible.
This movie is still bugging me so I'm going to continue...
SPOILER ALERT: Don't read anymore if you want to watch this movie...
So the whole movie the father is trying to make his daughter happier by doing goofy, silly things that might lose her her job. Haha. Very funny.
Does it make her happier? Of course not. Her life revolves around her SHITTY job so by the end of the movie it is clear that she isn't any happier.
But now she has yet another job to do which is: pretend that she is happy so that her father will think that he has succeeded.
