泛美机械公司

When you work for Maquinaria Panamericana, you’re part of the family. It’s hard to think of a better workplace: a convenient location next to Mexico City Airport, a generous boss in the form of Don Alejandro, spacious premises and whole decades of proud company tradition. Maybe that’s why everything looks a bit cluttered these days, there are almost too many happy memories to hold on to. But that’s no impediment to work, all the countless files, computers and paraphernalia are like trusted companions. Working here is more about spending time together anyway, chatting, joking, keeping the company spirit alive, productivity and efficiency be damned.


　　Sometimes the future arrives without notice. Don Alejandro dies and with him the illusion, he’s been paying the wages out of his own pocket and the company is bankrupt. How do you react to a death in the family, to the end of an era? You lock the gates tightly, you look for solutions, you process your grief, you drink until you no longer can, you tolerate no dissention. Change can feel so surreal: the banging of an iron rod, the ceremonial washing of a corpse, water spurting up from under the asphalt. It’s going to be a long night… berlinale 2016

Capitalist apocalypse?

这部political apocalypse喜剧完全把重点放到了集体叙事，于是很容易看到国家、机器、领袖、制度这类象征，却缺乏个体叙事的细致，所以看起来总觉得少点儿什么。导演说自己很喜欢布努埃尔和瑞典式幽默。

以集体狂欢的形式维系一个内核已经崩塌的框架。

看来每次电影节都要遇到奇葩，今年是这部。不是恶毒，真是看到之后就不希望导演再碰电影了…[D]