The film was released in South Korea in October and won the box office for many consecutive days.
It is a bit like the Korean female version of "Chinese Partner", with similar learning English sections, the background setting of the 1980s and 1990s, inspirational, bloody tone, also adapted from real events...
But it is a completely different story: "Sanzhen Group English TOEIC Class"
Seoul, South Korea, 1995.
Li Ziying,
Zheng Youna,
Shen Baolan,
The three people with good relations worked as clerks in the production management department, sales department and finance department of South Korea's Sanzhen Group.
They are not highly educated, and they are assigned all the chores: cleaning, making coffee, printing documents...
According to the company's previous employment style, once they get married and get pregnant, they will be fired...
Fortunately, this year, they caught the shuttle of the times of change.
In 1995, the President of South Korea began to announce the Globalization Development Strategy. A large number of Korean companies began to organize English training.
Sanzhen Group also followed the trend.
According to the regulations, if the English TOEIC class performs well in the TOEIC exam, those employees who have not had the opportunity in the past will be promoted...
This can encourage a large number of people in the company, especially those like Li Ziying, who can only accept and be called to drink...
However, Zheng Youna did not think so. She seemed to be in a daze: the score requirements were too high. It must have been the company's conspiracy to drive us away...
However, all three of them went to tow class to learn English...
No one expected that the three people's work encounters and life destinies would finally achieve a counterattack...
But what changed everything was not English.
But Li Ziying accidentally discovered, a company secret...
Speaking of which, "Sanzhen Group English TOEIC" is a more mix-and-match movie.
Its main line is a black-breaking operation, in which the protagonist discovers that the company is discharging sewage, harming the innocent, and trying to cover up the truth. They are trying to fight the top brass and want to reveal the facts.
Coupled with the background of the "true story", it could have been as calm and serious as "Blackwater", telling the mourning of small people against the system.
However, "Sanzhen Group English TOEIC Class" is handled very easily, and it also combines the specific era background to add comedy and suspense elements.
For example, before the company's employees start work, they do funny gymnastics, play Tetris when they go to work to touch fish...
For example, in the era before the invention of mobile phones, people called in public telephone booths and needed to keep throwing coins into them...
For example, in the battle of wits and courage with the company's senior management, it seems to be similar to the spy battle: guessing the safe password, sneaking into the room...
Click on this film, did not see the end, you can never guess, the end of this film is going to go...
This is also the reason why the reputation of this film is polarized, and people who love it feel that the genre is rich and overwhelming. People who don't love it feel too mixed.
Straight male cancer watching "Sanzhen Group English TOEIC Class" may produce some resistance and discomfort.
Because, this new film has the meaning of women's rights and interests.
The three heroines, from the first appearance, have shown excellent work ability in their respective fields:
Li Ziying is not only handy in dealing with trivial matters, but also has a handy grasp of work affairs.
Colleagues can't find the file, she immediately turned to...
Zheng Youna, always able to get to the point, come up with new ideas for the development of the company...
Shen Baolan, a math Olympiad winner, any calculation of numbers is a piece of cake for her...
However, due to academic issues, three people are not valued in the company:
Li Ziying found the company's work loopholes, but because she had no right to speak, she had to secretly write a good report and let male colleagues report to the leader...
Zheng Youna's idea is always taken by colleagues with high positions and taken as her own...
Shen Baolan has always felt that the company's financial system is unreasonable, and she wants to create a new ...
When they found out about the company's shady scenes, the 3 of them were determined to fight against the powerful company executives with a small and broad...
The process is thrilling and everyone plays to their strengths:
For example, Li Ziying, based on her coffee drinking preferences alone, locked in colleagues who assisted the black hand of the top level; she used the fax number to press Tu Suoji to find the mastermind behind the scenes...
For example, the most assertive Zheng Youna successfully plotted against her former opponents and obtained confidential documents...
The most astonishing thing is:
The film begins with learning English, and after a series of gags, laughter and tear-jerking, tense stimulation, the end of the film actually returns to the theme satisfactorily: English TOEIC class.
The heroine uses the crappy English she has just learned to fight foreign conspirators...
I must mention that this film impressed me the most.
This is also why three ordinary women can do earth-shattering things.
Because they are not mediocre, day after day.
In fact, as a low-level social animal, it is not the most cruel thing to endure unreasonable oppression, no way to complain, and no way to fight.
What is even more grim is that the beaters recognize their own incompetence, and from then on they do not think of making progress, muddled and resigned themselves to fate.
Li Ziying of the "Sanzhen Group English TOEIC Class", she often asks herself: What do I work for?
She didn't want to waste her youth.
Another example is shen baolan, a financial clerk, who had never found something she loved and almost gave up her ability.
Fortunately, the three people finally chose to shake the tree and make a desperate bet, which created a miracle and won opportunities for themselves.
The famous question of "The Chinese Partner", used as a footnote to this movie, is the most suitable:
Did we change the world, or did the world change us?
In fact, as soon as you start to change, the world you live in will start to change.