{"id":1247,"date":"2024-06-20T04:28:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T04:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/do-not-expect-too-much-from-the-end-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T04:28:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T04:28:40","slug":"do-not-expect-too-much-from-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/do-not-expect-too-much-from-the-end-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might want it to be. And yet, the people who work on such projects are expected to display the slavish devotion of passionate and committed artists. Working 18 or 20 hours a day to produce commercial content isn\u2019t worth it, that much is clear. That raises more questions, though: Is \u201cart,\u201d however you define it, any more worthy of sacrificing the safety and sanity of human beings? Is <em>any<\/em> of this worth it? And do the people for whom we\u2019re sacrificing so much even notice, let alone care?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Overtime comes up a lot in \u201cDo Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World,\u201d a cynical and bone-dry satire from Romanian director Radu Jude. Using an exhausted production assistant as its vehicle, Jude\u2019s film explores the ways in which the ever-tightening noose of 21-century capitalism chokes the life out of everyday people. Corners are constantly being cut; workers are constantly being asked to do more for less. In Jude\u2019s version of the apocalypse, the light will go out so subtly, we won\u2019t notice until it\u2019s pitch black. And it\u2019ll be a billionaire unscrewing the bulb to save a few cents on electricity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the context of the internet, this gradual, Jenga-like collapse is referred to as \u201censhittification.\u201d In Jude\u2019s film, it\u2019s conveyed through the encroachment of billboards into cemeteries and paychecks that are always late. These annoyances are ever-present in the life of Angela (Ilinca Manolache), the aforementioned PA, whose day begins at 5:50 AM and ends long after dark. The film is structured around a single workday, which for Angela consists mostly of sitting in traffic\u2014another banal misery\u2014in between appointments.<\/p>\n<p>Today, she\u2019s auditioning disabled factory workers for a part in a workplace safety video. She\u2019s collecting their sad stories and compiling the footage for her bosses, who will decide that afternoon which of them is just pathetic enough to make for a good cautionary tale. (In a brutal scene later on, a German marketing executive played by Nina Hoss will reject one of the candidates, saying that looking at him makes her too sad.) Angela has been chosen for this role because she\u2019s \u201cone of them.\u201d They trust her. And when the time comes, it\u2019ll be her job to twist the knife.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might want it to be. And yet, the people who work on such projects are expected to display the slavish devotion of passionate and committed artists. Working 18 or 20 hours a day to produce commercial content isn\u2019t worth it, that much is clear. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[33,45],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy-movies","tag-comedy","tag-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}