Almacenados

Besides the meaningless jobs and how much lies we gather to make our own version of reality because the society we live in, is all about how great the company's culture is, or how great our work is, when in reality we are mostly often worker bees, we are not unique, in the aspect of doing something that can't be done by the majority. The monotonous jobs and repetitive script which predicts our lives and we think all this have a meaning, all these years we did something but it's.. just a way to pay the bills, nothing more attached to it. Another subject that it tackled was, that older generations can't really accept the ways of younger generations, it's a foreign concept for them but it doesn't mean that we just discard them, we still have to help them, understand that they are wired like that, we can help them in our own way. It's a sad story, depicting the state of the world, built on lies we ourselves crafted.

It has a good production quality and the dynamics between the two protagonists is quite good.

This movie resonated with me for a few reasons -- the Netflix version had good Spanish subtitles, which is very useful for a language learner. More importantly, it captured how I felt when I started working in the "professional" world a few years ago. So much of it is pointless, almost religious ritual. Why do we do the things we do? I often wonder if it would matter if I stopped working entirely. Would anyone even notice? I guess this is more of an indictment of my work ethic than a movie review. Oh well, this one is worth a watch if you can handle a simple plot with complex characters.

If you don't listen to the between the lines you'll hate it . Very intelligent film amusing and philosophical great artists and specially a genius director I'm getting in love with Latin films.

I watched this as part of TIFF 2016 (Transilvania International Film Festival) and it was on my extended list of movies I should check out, but boy - what I was about to miss! The whole story is taking place in a Mexican warehouse and it's focusing on two characters. We've got the senior employee, who's been in charge of the warehouse for his entire life basically and he's been strictly following the rules - absurd or not - for this whole time. Aaand we get the newcomer, the young spirited guy who's ready to take on a new job and has no more than 5 days to learn all he needs to know. The whole movie is based on the hours the two characters spend together, hours full of lessons for both sides. It had its funny moments when the whole crowd was laughing and it had its moments of wisdom that left the cinema hall in silence. I had no idea who the characters are nor who directed the movie, but they all did a wonderful job. I even rated the movie with the highest score for TIFF People's Choice Award. If you get the chance to watch this movie, do it. It's better than a short description can tell.