The other evening I watched a contemporary film that I’m positive was
meant by its writers and producers to be a modern day story depicting five
well-to-do company executives who like many of us, become victims of our
country’s financial meltdown, or as the news media calls it – the Recession.
These unfortunate souls were forced to go from multi-million dollar homes,
corporate jets, vacation houses in the Bahamas, first-class country club
memberships… you get the story – right?
As the reels unwind, one of the
newly pink-slipped executives is forced to work for his brother-in-law’s
contracting company, installing drywall and so-forth. Still, the bills continue
to mount as he remains in denial thinking that
another big corner office is waiting just around the corner. His wife however gives him a little push into
reality by selling his classic Porsche. Another
one of our ex-execs goes so far as to commit suicide. No longer could he go
on playing real-life charades by pretending to continue his family’s once
lavish lifestyle. Sadly without sympathy or understanding from his spouse, this poor soul stays out at the bar until
evening then arrives home as in the past with his briefcase and Wall Street
Journal under his arm so the neighbors
don’t get suspicious. The script attempts to put the darkest hue of doom
above the ex-vice-president who must now find a way to live off of his
one-hundred million in stock options while maintaining his pride, dignity, and
sexual liaison with his ex-corporation’s head of human resources.
I sat patiently waiting for the
killer plot twist or story-stunner; but what happened at the end (spoiler
warning) they all had to start over with
new jobs and careers. SERIOUSLY! They
had jobs! But lowering themselves to a
significantly lessor pay-scale was equivalent to being unemployed in their eyes.
There was a scene where one of the major characters had to sit on the back
steps with his young teenage son (teary eyed) and explain that he lost his job; not mentioning
that there was a construction job
waiting for him if he wanted it (but that
was not a real job). Someone wrote and produced this major motion picture
with a minimum of six major actors portraying down and out executives who once
had it all and now must live off of their stock options and lower-middle-class
salaries. Honest! This was not a comedy…
it was meant to make me sad and
concerned for the characters.
I did a little investigating myself
and found that a large portion of individuals collecting unemployment for the
um-teenth month feel that lower paying jobs with
less benefits and options than their previous jobs are considered as
unacceptable, therefore they remain on unemployment. Oh, if I could be so lucky!http://www.artikelberbahasainggris.com/ekonomi/jobs-the-economy-and-unemployment.html
Tugas :
- The other evening I watched a contemporary film (simple past tense)
- I’m positive was meant by its writers and producers to be a modern day story depicting five well-to-do company executives (past continuous tense)
- That another big corner office is waiting just around the corner. (present continous tense)
- His wife however gives him a little push (simple present tense)
- Another one of our ex-execs goes so far as to commit suicide (simple present tense)
- This poor soul stays out at the bar (simple present tense)
- So the neighbors don’t get suspicious (simple present tense)
- I sat patiently (simple past tense)
- They all had to start over with new jobs and careers (simple past tense)
- They had jobs! (simple past tense)
- significantly lessor pay-scale was equivalent to being unemployed in their eyes (past continous tense)
- The major characters had to sit on the back steps with his young teenage son (simple past tense)
- There was a scene (simple past tense)
- There was a construction job waiting for him (past continous tense)
- That he lost his job (simple past tense)
- That was not a real job (simple past tense)
- Someone wrote and produced this major motion picture (simple past tense)
- This was not a comedy… it was meant to make me sad and concerned for the characters.(simple past tense)
- I did a little investigating myself (simple past tense)
- I could be so lucky! (simple past tense)
