April 4, 2007

The Job (2007) **

A group of well-dressed businessmen and women gather outside a mid-level office park. The silence is broken by a pick-up truck blaring mariachi music. The driver needs two lawyers, an accountant and a CEO. When this film was made in 2007, it was clearly a satire about illegal immigrants and the way they're treated by employers. But then, after the economic crash of 2008-2010, the film has acquired an entirely new meaning - a satire on white-collar unemployement.