Thursday, July 07, 2011

Must Read 'Horrible Bosses' Rundown


AO Scott reviews 'Horrible Bosses'

So here is the evident puzzle: “Horrible Bosses” is also frequently very funny. One reason is that it does not bother to cut its coarseness with a hypocritical dose of sweetness or respectability. Nor, however, does it make a big show of being provocative, of pretending that its forays into offensiveness are acts of bravery. It takes the ordinary human traits of stupidity, selfishness, lust and greed (and also stupidity), embeds them in a human condition that is confusing, unfair and also stupid, and turns the whole sorry spectacle into a carnival.

It keeps going like that. One of the best assessments I've read. About the abusive bosses, Scott says:

These predicaments are as exaggerated as the bumbling homicidal response they inspire, but then again, in times like these, what are abused and humiliated workers going to do? Join a union? Go to court?

Very nice.






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