The Method
A multinational company in Madrid is the setting for Marcelo Pineyro's drama about a group of candidates vying for one executive position and the fierce competition that develops among them. The seven applicants quickly grow to distrust one another when they discover they're all aiming for the same position. Put through a grueling selection process, they endure feelings of fear and paranoia while going to extreme measures to land the job.
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This movie FLOORED me. Picture David Mamet writing an adaptation of Lord of the Flies, where the island is a corporate boardroom, and the sticks and stones are moral quandaries. Replace the kids with an assortment of the best Spanish and Argentine actors the world has to offer, and you get a sense of what you're getting into with The Method. A frustratingly ignorant fellow Netflixer said to me: "I didn't buy it. I mean, come on, all that trouble just for a job?" Which to me is like walking out of The Matrix and saying: "So, it was all just a video game?" It's completely missing the point of this film. I'm tickled by all the threads on IMDB that believe this film has anything to do with a job OR a company. (Hint: It doesn't.) The job is just a setup which serves as a canvas on which to hang the overwhelming flow of ideas this film has to offer. In varying degrees, the film addresses: loyalty, environmentalism, ethics, ageism, economics, capitalism, privacy, globalism, sacrifice, sexism, about 30 other isms, and even love. In an age where most movies distract you with loud noises and shiny lights to hide the fact that they have nothing to say, here is a film that has so much to say that as it ended, I wanted to immediately watch it again, to process my thoughts. All of this is told from a set smaller than my house, in a rapid-fire style that kept me glued to my seat for the entire running time. This is one of those rare treats that I like to call "Imperial Probe Droids," because 1) I'm a nerd, and 2) as I pass the DVD around to everyone I know, it will reveal new facets of their filmic tastes, as well as their personalities. An emotionally and intellectually exhilarating experience. 5 stars.- Topaz420 in CA