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“The key to success is taking sh*t.”
That is the only note I took early in my screening of the movie Horrible Bosses last week, mostly because I was then too busy laughing. Quite a testament to this hilarious flick from someone who is prone to find “the message” in everything. But my press sheet had already set things up nicely to the contrary.
“ ... [T]here’s really no message here,” it quotes director Seth Gordon as saying.
OK, then. Let’s settle in and go for a ride.
Jason Bateman’s character utters the above quote in the beginning of the movie when his boss-- deliciously played by Kevin Spacey -- rides him unmercifully for being two minutes late. We quickly see how the lives of this guy and his two friends (played by Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day) would be markedly improved if their bosses (Colin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston, respectively) were out of the picture.
It seems the key to their success is indeed “taking sh*t.” And haven’t we all known that feeling at one time or another? Therein lies the appeal of Horrible Bosses . It is hitting in an era when more people than ever are stressed at work, often wondering how they wound up slogging away for inept, egomaniacal or out-of-touch supervisors. It is cathartic entertainment in troubled times, when so many are feeling backed in a corner, resentful, and in an endlessly looping grind. Hijinx and a hit man are just what the doctor ordered.
The cast is chock full of fine-to-great actors, but I must make special mention of Aniston, whose deviation from “every” girl into vixen is just a blast to watch. Kind of jaw-dropping, actually. From all accounts she relished the challenge of the role, which brings me to the … well, let’s call it message by association, of the film.
Is there a better place for expression than art? Whether releasing anger, oozing sexuality or spilling sorrow via an artistic means or simply ingesting someone else’s version of it and laughing uproariously, a creative outlet is our healthy friend. As I sat in my Dante’s Inferno class less than 24 hours after seeing Horrible Bosses , I couldn’t help but laugh at how Dante, too, was doing just that in the 1300s--using his poetry gift to banish real people to eternal punishment in “the hurricane of Hell in perpetual motion.”
Dante doesn’t just send people to one big place called Hell, he parses according to the level of sin, whether or not they wronged him personally, and even singles some of them out for an extra dose of suffering. That it is methodical and medieval makes it all the more riveting.
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