If schadenfreude, or taking pleasure from someone else’s misfortune, is your thing, run, do not walk, to “The Company Men,” and get a fix watching the rich and powerful take a financial and psychological beating by being fired. It’s fitting emotional revenge for so many of us who have seen employees sacrificed on the altar of a CEO’s salary.
We’re in Boston, where a big-time, high-profile firm is in the throes of corporate despondency because the bottom line is heading toward the bottom. Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck) and his comfortable, six-figure salary, have been escorted out the door. He’s...
The Company Men – Reelworld (Webster-Kirkwood Times)
Kent’s Take:
“The Company Men” begins by opening the doors of corporate power, but the tables are quickly turned as the economy takes a dive.
Showing no mercy, the multi-million dollar shipping company doesn’t trim its ranks – it hacks and slashes them.
Instead of looking to preserve and uphold the integrity and thoughtfulness that built the company, modern corporate America takes hold and experienced employees are cut in order to quickly bring profits up as well as the stock price in order to prevent the company from being bought in a hostile takeover.
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