The J-thing's Observation of the Day
C and I went to catch Just Follow Law today.
Now the plot was really nothing to cry about. I mean, swapping souls? Woman in man's body and vice versa? All through a car crash? It's just too stupid. Furthermore, they try to recreate the accident to try to swap back? More like try to kill themselves.
But what made this movie brilliant, was its not-so-tongue-in-cheek portrayal of life in the civil service: full of red tape, black & white, rules, rigidity, arrowing, tai-chi-ing, sucking-up, glory-stealing, almost non-existent budgets, do more with less, etc. What would have made it more realistic is if the boss had won the creativity prize at the end instead of Gurmit's character. In true-blue civil servant fashion, that is what I expected.
I also thought that the bits about the 66.6% out of 84 questions and the CCTV recording the forms were rather funny in a silly way. Needless, but funny all the same.
But anyway, it was harrowingly real, the jabs at the bogged-down piece of machinery that the civil service has become. While I heard reviews which mentioned that civil servants concede that about 70% of the jibes are quite close to the truth, as far as my ministry is concerned, it's closer to 100%!
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Now the plot was really nothing to cry about. I mean, swapping souls? Woman in man's body and vice versa? All through a car crash? It's just too stupid. Furthermore, they try to recreate the accident to try to swap back? More like try to kill themselves.
But what made this movie brilliant, was its not-so-tongue-in-cheek portrayal of life in the civil service: full of red tape, black & white, rules, rigidity, arrowing, tai-chi-ing, sucking-up, glory-stealing, almost non-existent budgets, do more with less, etc. What would have made it more realistic is if the boss had won the creativity prize at the end instead of Gurmit's character. In true-blue civil servant fashion, that is what I expected.
I also thought that the bits about the 66.6% out of 84 questions and the CCTV recording the forms were rather funny in a silly way. Needless, but funny all the same.
But anyway, it was harrowingly real, the jabs at the bogged-down piece of machinery that the civil service has become. While I heard reviews which mentioned that civil servants concede that about 70% of the jibes are quite close to the truth, as far as my ministry is concerned, it's closer to 100%!
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