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The film is set in a dream company, Google. It’s like Wonka’s chocolate factory, but in Silicon Valley. It’s a world where the average age is thirty, and it is impossible to distinguish a manager from a trainee. Everyone seems happy. People ride on Google bicycles, eat free Google sandwiches, and chill out in relaxing Google spaces. This is a fantasy of thousands of guys with big black eyeglasses, who endeavor to become part of the company. Now is the perfect time for two cute, funny forty-year-old men to appear. Formerly successful agents for a watch company, they’ve lost their jobs and are looking for a new opportunity. They finally got an online interview with the great San Francisco company, which considers them "unsuitable" but decides to give them a chance anyway. They end up in competition with dozens of other trainees, who know the terminology and computer systems well--unlike them. But both manage to come up with original solutions to solve problems, relying more on their own experience to build a winning team than on the ability to recognize a system bug. The film is a real product placement, in which the American company is glorified as a heterogeneous system, full of value, where two eager forty-year-old men can work to become part of it, overcoming their limited knowledge with experience and talent to motivate colleagues to reach the goal. Will it happen? .

01—03 Billy McMahon (Vince Vaughn), Nick Campbell (Owen Wilson) 02 Billy McMahon (Vince Vaughn) Photos are courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

Characters Vince Vaughn (as Billy McMahon), Owen Wilson (as Nick Campbell), Rose Byrne (as Dana), Aasif Mandvi (as Mr. Chetty) and Max Minghella (as Graham Hawtrey). Created by Vince Vaughn and Jared Stern. Directed by Shawn Levy. Produced by Vince Vaughn.

The Internship

Gen X vs Gen Y: Digital natives give a hard time to two former agents for a watch company who lost their jobs but are ready for the battle to get into Google.

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Review by Carasoo There are two Generation Xers and a group of nerds. The first two lost their jobs because the traditional watch company they were working for went bankrupt. To add fuel to the fire, one of them has been left by his wife. The Google nerds live well and spend a lot of time organizing sports events. Meanwhile, Samsung is busy launching Galaxy Gear, a digital watch, while our two dinosaurs, former traditional watch sellers, try to put emotions center stage. I will have to see the film again, because I didn’t get it the first time!

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Rewiews By FRANCESCA TONEGUTTI

Dahai is a mineworker who rebels against the corrupt system of bosses to fight for the rights of people in his village. A lonely and abandoned man, forced to work apart from his family, he feels a growing anger inside and indifference toward others. A young receptionist in a local sauna is obliged to endure advances and violence from customers who think they can buy anything with money. A young boy looking for a reason to live goes from one discouraging job to another, from manufacturing companies to a brothel for wealthy businessmen. Here is a real cross-section of contemporary China, which emphasizes the fast-paced, booming industrial development characterized by sprawling housing developments and new infrastructure alongside wooden huts. The country handles the large demand for employment, but is also marked by a deep social malaise that provokes all the characters to react to their condition with marked violence against others and themselves. The search for a fair and equal life is represented in a scene where a horse, who’s beaten bloody, is “freed” by his torturer and runs away with the cart; or where the receptionist, though accused of murder, is able to build a new life just where the story began.

01 Lanshan Luo (Xiao Hui) 02 Yu Lik - Wai is a cinematographer in the film's production crew. 03 Wu Jiang (Dahai) 04 The movie poster

A Touch of Sin

Four characters, four lives follow each other sharing two common denominators: a job and a dire social situation, where poverty, ostentation, discrimination, and depression trigger the usual response.

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Review by Carasoo This is not a happy movie. Some are dead, others murdered and there are suicides. Today, in China, many are rethinking society. But beyond the darkness, the film portrays the human search for beauty; amidst the deaths and dying there is an emphasis on style and elegance.

Characters Wu Jiang (as Dahai), Tao Zhao (as Xiao Yu), Baoqian Wang (as Zhou San) and Lanshan Luo (as Xiao Hui). Created by Zhangke Jia and directed by Zhangke Jia. Produced by Yu Lik-Way.

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