Movie Substrate · Film
Office Christmas Party (2016)
★ 5.7 · 2,205 ratings on TMDB
Party like your job depends on it
When Carol Vanstone, CEO of the technology company Zenotek, expresses her intention to close the Chicago branch, run by her brother Clay, he and his co-workers organize a Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and save their jobs. But the party gets out of control…
GenresComedy
The emergence reading
Office Christmas Party keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E11/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing culture, power, authority, exploitation, inequality.
zero-distanceUSculturepowerauthorityexploitationinequality
Same rung, same subject
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